Linguafiles

Malapropisms and false friends


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We hope you chew in to the first episode of the bran new cereal, the 'Linguafiles'. Join Alex on a whirlwind door of discovery through some of languid's funniest and oddest quarks ...Wait...what? Don't worry. It’ll all make sense in episode one. Promise. 

Music by Epidemicsounds.com

References: 1.  Oxford Languages (2012). The Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press 

2. Sheridan, Richard Brinsely (1775). The Rivals: A Comedy 

3. New Scientist (18th June 2005) Malapropism for Malapropism. newscientist.com   

4. BBC (2nd May 2018) BBC News 

5.  Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, Roderick McKenzie (1843) A Greek-English Lexicon, Oxford University Press Music by Epidemicsound.com

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LinguafilesBy Alex Morgan

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