Eccents

There has been some (yawn) discussion recently, in the wake of the news that children are going to be taught to speak proper again in schools, about whether the thing you wash in – baaath or bAth – is an indicator of class or of region. A polymath wrote to The Times to say that he favoured the former

On Thursday there was a delightful programme on Radio 4 about Percy Smith, a pioneer of natural history films. We heard part of an original Edwardian sound track from one of them, about newts.

The female of the species works hard at getting ‘fetter’ in the spring, because the male of the species ‘has an eye for plumpness’

You can see his film The Balancing Bluebottle here

Link

The Bioscope

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