Posts Tagged ‘BBC Radio 4’
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on August 26, 2009
BBC Radio 4 has started a new series on the English language, titled Fry’s English Delight. In the third and final programme, which you can listen to below, Fry explores the word hallo. With the help of language experts Fry takes a look at the origins of the word and how its meaning has changed [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on August 19, 2009
BBC Radio 4 has started a new series on the English language, titled Fry’s English Delight. In the second programme, which you can listen to below, Fry explores the subject of pronunciation. He is joined by experts of communication skills and elocution to dicuss the power of proper pronunciation. This radio broadcast will be available [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on August 13, 2009
BBC Radio 4 has started a new series on the English language, titled Fry’s English Delight. In the first programme, which you can listen to below, Fry looks at how ‘wrong English’ can become ‘right English’. Or, in his words (cue Star Trek theme music), ‘to boldly go into the outer reaches of the language [...]
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Posted by Shane Rae on April 08, 2009
Why is it that journalists seem to think that they are allowed the greatest licence when using the English language? Why do they not feel bound by the same linguistic restraints as the rest of us? Often they make up brand new words to describe something in a way they feel that no existing word [...]
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