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About Dr Geoff Lindsey
Geoff Lindsey is a British linguist, writer and director. He has written episodes for television series including the BBC soap opera EastEnders and The Bill, and runs a YouTube channel focusing on linguistics.
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Introduction
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Who pronounces foreign words like PASTA right? 🇺🇸 or 🇬🇧?
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My favourite British accent by an American actor
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Introduction & rhoticity
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Examples of unwritten r from around the world
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Introduction, Guardians of the Galaxy
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Why Some People Say SHTRONG! (the CHRUTH)
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WEAK FORMS: Why You Don't Sound Like a Native...?
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Speech is really SBEECH!
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Baffling people & the YouTube captioner
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Colonial history
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Revealing how THE PINK PANTHER teaches English rhythm!
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Received Pronunciation
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intrusive r
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British grammar has GOTTEN more American
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Vocal Fry: what it is, who does it, and why people hate it
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have & have
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Linking R in detail
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Intrusive R by performers doing accents
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Intrusive R in foreign languages
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The mistaken rule & hypercorrection
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Why some say CHUBE and some say TOOB
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Vocal Fry: what it is, who does it, and why people hate it!
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The 3 danger vowels for actors
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Genuinely intrusive R #2
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Even great actors get it wrong...
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Positive associations
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two & to, four & for
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Brits without a British accent
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English actors get this WRONG when they do American accents
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Phonetic adventures in Prague
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strong negative, weak positive
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My wrong prediction
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can & can't
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there & there
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'Aks' in Old English
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off & on
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Why do people say AKS (or AX) instead of ASK?
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What if English actually SOUNDED like this??
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LENGTH and LINKING in British, American and Australian accents!
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'Aks' in the Shetland Islands
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'Aks' in Jamaica & MLE
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Stereotyping & prejudice
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Quiz
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C. Gimson's book
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Why Do Experts Always Defend Language Mistakes
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The 1960's
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Why Some People Say SHTRONG (the CHRUTH)
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'Aks' in the Bible
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Brits as foreigners
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