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English-language countries have higher rates of dyslexic failure in literacy than those where languages have more consistent spelling. That's just one of the many costs of the unnecessary difficulties in English spelling which the UK Spelling Society tried to quantify at its centenary conference earlier this month. Read Transcript
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Robert Dessaix addresses the up and down sides of flattery, opining that we can all do with a bit of buttering up! Read Transcript
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On the case heard last week, in a court in Athens, about the word 'lesbian', in which the plaintiffs are claiming that the prerogative to the term belongs to the inhabitants of the island of Lesbos. They are seeking for a ban to be placed on its use by the gay organisation, the Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece. Read Transcript
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How an Australian invented 'Good American Speech' in the golden age of Hollywood. The historian Desley Deacon tells Jill Kitson about Australia's own Henry Higgins.
Saturday 3.45pm
repeated Thursday 3.45pm
Presented by
Maria Zijlstra
Saturday 05 July 2008
Some of those joining up to the British Army these days, have less than adequate literacy skills, some as low as those normally expected of five- to seven-year-olds. So it falls to basic recruit training to bring them up to the literacy levels of nine- to 11-year-olds, required in order to pass out.
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