"I don't know what it is about the power of language. It's just, it's kind of arbitrary or, yeah, it's a bit of a mystery," he says. "Very interesting though, because it does kind of show us that a word which is, yeah, a word can just be given this power."
Special Guest Mark Steel joins me to discuss cultural and linguistic differences between the UK and France, plus accents in the UK and a little tour of some places in the UK that you don't know about. Also includes a discussion of swearing and rude language in Britain. What is the R word which you should never say in a specific part of the UK? Listen on to find out.
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