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Culture File: Speaking Proper

Culture File: Speaking Proper

Clip • 7 Mins • 29 APR 14 • Liz Nolan's Classic Drive ADVERTISEMENT PLAYING…

Why don’t people speak like what they used to? Like, what’s with the funny accents, the awful, artificial and just plain wrong pro-noun-ciations? Prof Raymond Hickey has some ideas.

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