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Yeoman's English: 10: Living Language - a lesson learnt

on Regional Programme Western

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Dialect studies in the art of self-expression

W.J. Gruffydd sums Up
How shall the King's English prevail against the standardisation that threatens it? The wide and easy communication of twentieth-century man with man makes a convention of language. In the town we speak by rote and write by cliche, but still in the heart of the country - in Somerset, in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, in Devon and Dorset, people match their words to what they think and feel. Let Yeomen serve!

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W.J. Gruffydd

Regional Programme Western

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Regional Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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