
Bonus Ep 24 - The Great Fire of London with Ben
The British English Podcast
Put a Sock in the Gramophone
Soy pu put a sock in it means to stop talking, right? Well, do you know where that came from? No, it came from the old ophones in the 19 twenties. In order to control the volume, they would stuff a sock down the big gramophone. So guys think of the gramophone and the sock, maybe even ben sock. Would you say that your sock is clean or dirty? Ah, right now it's relatively clean. But i have been walking around the studio in my socks. So they're probably quite dirty. Now, all right, say semi clean, semi clean. Sock of ben's in the gramophone. Very good. Put a
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