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Fry's English Delight - Series 2

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Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language

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Fry's English Delight - Series 2 - Hallo!

Hallo! Stephen says 'goodbye' with a programme about 'hallo', and how it came to be one of the world's favourite words.

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Fry's English Delight - Series 2 - So Wrong It's Right

Stephen examines how 'wrong' English can become right English and how usage changes language, with help from a lexicographer, an educationalist, a Times sub-editor and a judge.

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Fry's English Delight - Series 2 - Speaking Proper

Stephen Fry announces a field day for pedants in his investigation into what nowadays counts as 'speaking proper'.

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