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Fry's English Delight (BBC Audio) CD

National treasure, Stephen Fry gets to work on the complex use of the English language, as heard on Radio 4. Made up of four wonderful 30 minute programmes, Fry's English Delight looks at how 'Wrong English' can become 'Right English'. It's typical Fry: clever, informative and extremely amusing. Fry's English Delight is made up of:1. CURRENT PUNS - why puns are used and how they keep the social wheels turning.2. METAPHOR - find the origin of the metaphor.3. QUOTATION - literary quotations, used correctly and incorrectly.4. CLICHES - how cliché's have shaped modern language.Read More

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    Reveals the uses and misuses of quotations. This title features sick parrots and the cliche crisis that affected the writing of Flaubert, Joyce and Eliot, and helped shape modern language and culture.

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    Stephen Fry indulging his delight in the English language. Current Puns: Why does our language groan with the weight of puns? What exactly is a pun? And who or what is the Thief of Bad Gags? Metaphor: the English language is chock-full of maritime metaphors - cock up taken aback. ; ; Four 30 minute Radio 4 programmes presented by Stephen Fry indulging his delight in the English language. ; The 4 programmes in this CD release are: ; CURRENT PUNS - why weak puns and lame jokes are important and oil the social wheels. ; METAPHOR - from the freshly minted to the ancient fossils embedded in our language. ; QUOTATION - literary quotations clever bon mots malapropisms. ; CLICHES - how original coinages gradually become the stock-in-trade of lazy writers.

  • Blackwell

    Features four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4 - including Current Puns; Metaphor; Quotation; and, Cliche. Stephen Fry hosts four programmes on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC...

  • 1408409607
  • 9781408409602
  • 4 June 2009
  • BBC Audiobooks Ltd
  • Audio CD (CD)
  • Audiobook
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