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Word of Mouth: Why Is English So Weird?

Series 208, episode 1

Why slowly but not fastly? Why is colonel spelled colonel? Why a large pizza but never a big pizza? Michael Rosen is joined by American linguist Arika Okrent to find answers to the strangeness of English and ask who is to blame for the mess

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Michael Rosen
Arika Okrent