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Talk by Sir Wilfrid Eady
The speaker joined the Civil Service in 1913 and has experienced both the pleasure of using ' Plain Words ' and the difficulty of applying them to particular situations at home and abroad. He refers to the book that Sir Ernest Gowers , a colleague at the Treasury, has recently published, and examines the causes of the sort of speech Sir Ernest attacks

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Sir Wilfrid Eady
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Sir Ernest Gowers

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