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116: Downton Anachrony
Downton Abbey has enchanted millions of television viewers with the goings-on of the fictional Crawley family of the 1910s and 20s. But some of the language they use is decidedly post-post-Edwardian, and language fans are having fun turning up words and phrases that are too recent for Downton. Linguist Daniel Midgley ruins television forever on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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By Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
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Downton Abbey has enchanted millions of television viewers with the goings-on of the fictional Crawley family of the 1910s and 20s. But some of the language they use is decidedly post-post-Edwardian, and language fans are having fun turning up words and phrases that are too recent for Downton. Linguist Daniel Midgley ruins television forever on this episode of Talk the Talk.
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