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Episode: 0158 - Cut Clichés And Keep Familiar Words
Description: 0158 - Cut ClichĂ©s And Keep Familiar Words Shakespeare often made fun of pompous speech.âAn honest tale speeds best being plainly told.â (Richard III)And when the first English dictionary was published in 1604 (âA Table Alphabeticall of Hard Usual English Wordesâ) its compiler Robert Cawdrey appealed for plain language: âSome men seek so far for outlandish English, that they forget altogether their motherâs language, so that if some of their mothers were alive, they were not able to tell, or understand what they say...