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  1. Sounds Familiar? Accents and Dialects of the UK (2007)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second half of the twentieth century. It includes 71 5-minute audio extracts and over 600 short audio clips chosen from two...

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  2. Routes of English, The - Inside English: Do You Know What You Are Saying? (2006)

    Subject
    English language and literature

    Some forty years ago great hopes were raised in the literary community that the sort of routine mechanical analysis of literary texts (e.g. word counts and frequency of use of particular terms) that the...

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  3. Routes of English Special: Churchill’s Roar (2005)

    Subject
    English language and literature; History

    Melvyn Bragg presents an analysis and celebration of the remarkable language, voice and vocal acrobatics displayed throughout his life by Sir Winston Churchill. The programme examines the way Churchill used...

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  4. History of the English Language (1943)

    Director
    Mary Field
    Subject
    English language and literature; Linguistics

    History of the English Language acts as an excellent layman’s introduction to the origins of one of the most common languages on the planet, demonstrating how dialect changes over time, and presenting...

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