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Bill Bryson: Journeys In English

This BBC Radio 4 series is written and presented by Bill Bryson and based on his best-selling book 'Mother Tongue'. In it he romps through the history of Britain to reveal how English became such an infuriatingly complex - but ultimately world-beating
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This BBC Radio 4 series is written & presented by Bill Bryson & based on his best-selling book ' Mother Tongue'. In it he romps through the history of Britain to reveal how English became such an infuriatingly complex
- but ultimately world-beating
- language. The subject areas covered in the course of the six episodes (originally broadcast as ' Mother Tongue') include the arrival of the Angles & the Saxons, the rules which brought order to a disorderly language, the million & one ways to have fun with the English language, the struggle with phrasal verbs (and the way things often get lost in the translation) & the future of English
- does Estuary English Rule OK?

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Radio - A device used for listening to audio transmissions
History - Anything that happens in the past. An acedemic subject.
World - A physical grouping, commonly used to describe earth and everything associated with ti
Fun - Something that provides amusement or enterainment
Language - the method of communication used in different areas. Humans and computers have many different languages.
Language - The way humans communicate either written and spoken.
Tongue - The muscular organ found inside the mouth used for tasting.

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