Fry's English Delight - Series 1
Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language
Fry's English Delight - Series 1 - Cliche
Stephen looks at how cliche operates for both good and bad. A cliche crisis affected the writing of Flaubert, Joyce and Eliot and helped shape modern language and culture.
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Fry's English Delight - Series 1 - Metaphor
Britain's high coastline/population ratio helps to explain how maritime metaphor shaped the language. But the sea, and how it shapes the land, has a special metaphorical meaning.
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Fry's English Delight - Series 1 - Quotation
Stephen examines the thought processes of those who compile quotation dictionaries as well as those who use and abuse them.
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