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Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language

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The sea, and the way it shapes the land, has a special metaphorical meaning.

The sea, and how it shapes the land, has a special metaphorical meaning. Stephen Fry explores the English language. From August 2008.

Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English language.

Britain's high coastline/population ratio helps to explain how maritime metaphor shaped the English language. But the sea, and the way it shapes the land, has a special metaphorical meaning. Stephen suggests that language is shaped, like a coastline, by a flow of metaphors, which erode, break down and eventually become part of everyday speech and writing.

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