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Me Talk Pretty One Day

July 22, 2015 Language
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English is an ever-evolving language, cobbled together from words and phrases taken from around the globe. This hour, we’ll talk about common expressions and terms that may set off the language police with Ammon Shea, author of Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation (Perigee Books).


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