{"id":332,"date":"2009-08-07T12:32:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T12:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=332"},"modified":"2009-08-12T22:39:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T22:39:29","slug":"frys-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/07\/frys-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Fry&#8217;s English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.co.uk\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/www.testbed.co.uk\/gifsandjpegs\/fry%27s-delight.jpg&#038;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.testbed.co.uk\/&#038;usg=__r_uHF3ji4qG4L9FCUI1tCGyRCD4=&#038;h=113&#038;w=170&#038;sz=10&#038;hl=en&#038;start=17&#038;um=1&#038;tbnid=Iqb90ojRxp2QOM:&#038;tbnh=66&#038;tbnw=99&#038;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dstephen%2Bfry%2527s%2Benglish%2Bdelight%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/frys-delight.jpg\" alt=\"fry&#039;s-delight\" title=\"fry&#039;s-delight\" width=\"170\" height=\"113\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-333\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Fry\">Stephen Fry<\/a>\u2019s a British actor\/comedian\/etc. with (I think) a wonderfully pleasant-to-listen-to voice. <\/p>\n<p>So, luckily for me, he\u2019s presented a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00lv1ln#synopsis\">radio show<\/a> on the English language, which you can listen to through the internet if you&#8217;re sadly unable to pick up BBC radio waves.<\/p>\n<p>Called <em>Stephen Fry\u2019s English Delight<\/em>, the series \u201cexplores the highways and byways of the English language\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>The second show of the second series <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026examines how &#8216;wrong&#8217; English can become right English. For example, nowadays, more people use the word &#8216;wireless&#8217; in a computer context than in a radio one. With help from a lexicographer, an educationalist, a Times sub-editor and a judge, Stephen examines the way in which usage changes language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Definitely worth a listen if you\u2019re interested in this aspect of language, or just want to hear the dulcet tones of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenfry.com\/\">Mr Fry<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Fry\u2019s a British actor\/comedian\/etc. with (I think) a wonderfully pleasant-to-listen-to voice. So, luckily for me, he\u2019s presented a radio show on the English language, which you can listen to through the internet if you&#8217;re sadly unable to pick up BBC radio waves. Called Stephen Fry\u2019s English Delight, the series \u201cexplores the highways and byways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,44],"tags":[164,51,167,165,163,166],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-events","category-words","tag-bbc","tag-language","tag-language-usage","tag-radio","tag-stephen-fry","tag-stephen-frys-english-delight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}