David Crystal at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
A linguist and an expert on the development of the English language, David Crystal presents two books that tell us a great deal about English as it is spoken in the 21st century. You Say Potato looks at accents and our different ideas about correct pronunciation, while The Disappearing Dictionary features a treasure trove of lost English dialect words such as dabberlick, fubsy and squinch. In David s Book Festival event, he talks to Jenny Niven about his fascinating work. The event was filmed live at the
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