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Glee-man, high-deedy & bendsome: a language to save England
Glee-man, high-deedy & bendsome: a language to save England
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Jul 6, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Poverty and riots racked 19th-century rural England, but one eccentric Victorian cleric was convinced he had the solution – inventing a new language. Siân Rees introduces us to Reverend William Barnes, who developed a new version of English stripped of foreign words, which he was convinced would bind the nation together and return England to a state of harmony.
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Released:
Jul 6, 2021
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