1 Season
8 Episode
The Adventure of English - Season 1 Episode 6 Speaking Proper
In eighteenth century Britain, the first English dictionary was produced. A cohort of grammarians imposed new rules on the language. English continued to change and develop and the way people talked and the words they used became a badge of class and breeding and social death could result from dropping an ‘h’ or using an inappropriate word.
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- Genre : Documentary
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- Cast : Melvyn Bragg
