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These programmes are essential to help you on your journey to understand the English Language. They are available as MP3 files and can be played either on your computer or iPod.
· Stephen Fry's English Delight: Metaphor. 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.