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Put Downs and Insults

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Victoria tries to find the earliest evidence for prats and plonkers.

Victoria Coren, John Sergeant, Denis Healey, Ian McMillan and Mike Harding enlighten us on words such as wazzock, prat and plonker as put downs and insults.

Victoria Coren presents the series about words, inviting the public to make a vital contribution to the Oxford English Dictionary. 

In this edition on put downs and insults, Victoria tries to find the earliest evidence for prats and plonkers. John Sergeant looks at unparliamentary language. And poet Ian McMillan and comedian Mike Harding battle over whether Yorkshire or Lancashire can claim to have originated the word 'wazzock'.

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