J. Davidson - Planet Word

‘That’s where an isogloss happens’ibid.

‘My Aunty Mabel, who was from Chesterfield’ibid.

‘Whenever I speak in my voice’ibid.

‘So, somehow, the language carries on’ibid.

‘When the word dies’Ian McMillan, ‘Utopia! If you frame thissen properly, that is’, Yorkshire Post , 23 August 2010

‘And when I was first on the radio’Ian McMillan, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘It is the business of educated people’Arthur Burrell, as quoted in the Journal of International Phonetic Association, 1987, p. 21

‘One hears the most appalling travesties’John Reith, Broadcast Over Britain, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1924

‘be able to recognize instantly’BBC 1940

‘And to all in the North, good neet’Wilfred Pickles, BBC Radio, c. 1940

‘It is impossible for an Englishman’George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (Preface to Pygmalion) Penguin Classics, revised edition, January 2003

‘Having one’s cards engraved … ’Professor Alan Ross in Nancy Mitford (ed.), Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy , 1956

‘Phone for the fish knives, Norman’John Betjeman in Nancy Mitford (ed.), Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy , Hamish Hamilton, 1956

‘Can a non-U-speaker become a U-speaker?’Professor Alan Ross in Nancy Mitford (ed.), Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy , Hamish Hamilton, 1956

‘Why should they hide it?’Lawrence Fenley, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘In the twenty-first century’ibid.

‘It is only when, usually, you have an issue’ibid.

‘May it be forbidden that we should ever speak like BBC announcers’Wilfred Pickles, Between You and Me , Werner Laurie. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Ltd

‘Barnsley’s what I think with’Ian McMillan, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘Those are the heavy seven’George Carlin, ‘Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television’ , Class Clown , Atlantic, 1972

‘But words are words. I never did hear / That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear’William Shakespeare, Othello , (1:2, 218–19) Penguin Classics, New Ed edition, 2005

‘Not one of them would sit down,’Captain James Cook, James Cook: The Journals , Penguin Classics, 2003

‘I would hear things’Timothy Jay, BBC, Fry’s Planet Word , 2011

‘It’s like using the horn on your car’ibid.

‘As soon as kids can speak, they’re using swear words’Professor Timothy Jay, Cursing in America, John Benjamins, Philadelphia, 1992

‘Cathartic swearing comes from a primal rage circuit’Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought , Allen Lane, 2007

‘I had noises’Jess Thom, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘ It’s going all the time biscuit’ibid.

‘I was speaking to my dad on the phone’ibid.

‘Absolutely. I think lots of people misunderstand Tourette’s’ibid.

‘The response is not only emotional but involuntary’Steven Pinker, Why We Curse: What the F***? New Republic magazine, August 2007

‘One of mankind’s greatest-ever living language centres’Peter Silverton, Filthy English: The How, Why, When and What of Everyday Swearing, Portobello Books, 2009

‘In my mind I’d say that’Les Duhigg, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘I was always apologizing for him’Marion Duhigg, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘We had a chap in the stroke group’ibid.

‘It’s like being born again’Les Duhigg, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘ Richard : So, Stephen, when you put your hand in the water …

‘ Stephen : That is cold actually … ’Dr Richard Stephens, Brian Blessed and Stephen Fry, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘Please could you take this note, ram it up his hairy inbox and pin it to his fucking prostrate’Armando Ianucci, The Thick of It: The Rise of the Nutters, BBC 2007

‘There was that world which lived off a twenty-four-hour news cycle’Armando Ianucci, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘The last thing I want is every programme’ibid.

‘Euphemism is such a pervasive human phenomenon’Joseph Williams, quoted in Ralph Keyes, Euphemania: Our Love Affair With Euphemisms , Little Brown, 2010

‘This Earl of Oxford making his low obeisance’John Aubrey, Brief Lives, Penguin, new edition, 1972

‘Not a man swears but pays his twelve pence’Oliver Cromwell, quoted in An Anatomy of Swearing, Ashley Montague, University of Pensylvannia Press, March 2001

‘I’d like breast’Winston Churchill, Virginia, 1929, quoted by Celia Sandys, Chasing Churchill: Travels With Winston Churchill , Harper Collins, new edition, 2004

‘We had an auxiliary who was Portuguese’Julia Saunders, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011

‘Ah, isn’t that nice’Harry Carpenter at the 1977 Oxford — Cambridge boat race

‘It hangs like flax on a distaff’William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , 1:3,16, Penguin Classics, new edition, 2005

‘They don’t pay their sixpences’Marie Lloyd, quoted in The New York Telegraph , 14 November 1897

‘… significant moment in English history’T. S. Eliot, Selected Essays, Faber and Faber, London, 1941

‘When roses are red’Max Miller quoted in John M. East, Max Miller: The Cheeky Chappie , Robson Books Ltd, new edition, 1998

‘I know exactly what you are saying’ibid.

‘Programmes must at all cost be kept free of crudities’ The Little Green Book, BBC 1949

‘In Hackney Wick there lives a lass’Barry Took and Marty Feldman, ‘Rambling Syd Rumpo’, Round The Horne , BBC Radio

‘Mrs Slocombe: Before we go any further, Mr Rumbold’David Croft and Jeremy Lloyd, Are You Being Served?: ‘ Our Figures Are Slipping’, series 1, episode 3, BBC 1973

‘The twittering of the birds all day, the bumblebees at play’Ronnie Barker, The Two Ronnies , BBC

‘I spend all day just crawling through the grass’Peter Brewis, ‘The Two Ninnies’, Not The Nine O’Clock News , 1982

‘When, 20 years ago, Molly Sugden’David Baddiel

She was pleased to see his tender won’ I’m Sorry, I Haven’t A Clue , BBC Radio 4

‘I know, for example, that the lovely Farad here’Omid Djalili, Fry’s Planet Word , BBC 2011