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Inside Language | Peter Clarke and Kate Burridge look at those persistent expressions that reflect dead and dying attitudes

Kate Burridge & Peter Clarke 25 July 2016 63 words

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Dutch courage, French letters, it’s all Greek to me… In the latest Inside Language podcast, Peter Clarke talks to linguist Kate Burridge about how outmoded attitudes have hung around in English.

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Duration: 9 minutes 7 seconds

Kate Burridge is professor of linguistics at Monash University. Peter Clarke is a Melbourne-based broadcaster, writer and educator who pioneered national talkback on Australian radio as the inaugural presenter of Offspring (now Life Matters) on ABC Radio National.

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