Fry's English Delight - Series 3
Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language
Fry's English Delight - Series 3 - Accentuate The Negative
Stephen Fry explores some of the many aspects of the use of the negative, and its importance in the history of philosophy, science and religion - not to mention comedy double acts.
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Fry's English Delight - Series 3 - Future Conditional
The more people use English, the more it changes. Soon machines will speak and understand, or appear to. So what will English be like in 200 years' time? Stephen Fry investigates.
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Fry's English Delight - Series 3 - He Said, She Said
Stephen Fry asks if the people who are really divided by a common language are males and females. Do men and women really talk as if they were from different planets?
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Fry's English Delight - Series 3 - The Trial of Qwerty
Was the Qwerty system, which was invented in the 1870s, designed deliberately to slow typing down? Stephen Fry dons wig and gown to try this (alleged) affront to language.
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