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Word 4 Word

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5/6. Dermot Murnaghan continues his investigations into dialect and the way we speak.
Under the Influence. Speech is conditioned by influences both recent and remote. The joys of Scouse owe a huge debt to the arrival 150 years ago of Irish fleeing the famine, and today's young vernacular across the country is being shaped by the West Indian and Indian speech of musicians. Producer Simon Elmes Shortened repeat at 9.30pm EMAIL: word4word@bbc.co.uk

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Dermot Murnaghan
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Simon Elmes
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