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Fry's English Delight - HMS Metaphor | [Stephen Fry]
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Fry's English Delight - HMS Metaphor

  • by Stephen Fry
  • Narrated by Stephen Fry

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  • RELEASE DATE
    22/05/2009
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Stephen Fry hosts this programme on the joys of the English language - as heard on BBC Radio 4. The English language is chock-full of maritime metaphors: cock up, taken aback, chip on your shoulder, and show a leg. And, with the help of a Greek removals firm, we also find the origin of the word 'metaphor'.

©2008 Testbed Audio Ltd; (P)2009 BBC Audiobooks Ltd

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    Many other reviewers have said that Section 1 (?Current Puns?) is the only section worth listening to, but I disagree. This section is arguably the best one, with lots of QI-style insightful gambits. The large quantity of Naval metaphors (e.g. taken aback) are explored in this section, along with 'skeletons of metaphors'. Personally I had no idea that English was so laden with buried metaphors within individual words (e.g. 'sarcastic' meaning 'flesh tearing'). The phrase 'Deep Metaphor' takes on a whole new meaning...

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