Sunday 27 May 2012
advance australia fair
And so, at the end of a spectacular Monaco Grand Prix, Mark Webber stands on the winner's podium and shows he knows the words as the band plays Advance Australia Fair.
Saturday 26 May 2012
Wednesday 16 May 2012
Monday 14 May 2012
Thursday 10 May 2012
cut glass and demotic
Our Royal Majesty used to have a cut glass aristocratic idiolect. ('accent' to you and me!) Listen to some of the old recordings when they air them on the Teev. Now all is changed. When she read 'Her' speech in the Lords yesterday (the one that nice Mr Cameron put together for her) the sentences came out in something like drawing room demotic. I doubt it's a deliberate change of manner. It's nowhere near Essex. Must be something to do with the Zeitgeist?
Saturday 5 May 2012
Tuesday 1 May 2012
Paxman says Happy Beltane
How absolutely splendid to hear Jeremy Paxman end Newsnight with the words 'Happy Beltane'
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