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The unstoppable march of the upward inflection?

But migration theory would also back Australia or New Zealand as the source of the UK's uptalk. Either it was British expats travelling out to Australia and New Zealand and bringing back their manner of speaking. Or just the volume of antipodean immigration to London. The process could have been well under way before the first episode of Neighbours was even aired.

The potential spread of vocal fry could be an interesting case study. The phenomenon sees the speaker use their larynx in such way that a lower creaking or rattling quality enters their voice. There has been a great deal of discussion about it in the last few years in the US, with Kim Kardashian and Lena Dunham - when acting in TV comedy Girls - cited as examples.

One of the problems about tracing the rise of any speech pattern is that the point at which people noticed it as a "thing" does not necessarily reflect the period when it started.

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Even celebrities have pet peeves.

Room is a BBC comedy show that has been running on-and-off since (although it began on BBC Radio 5in ), named for the Room from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which itself was named after a conference room at Broadcasting House, the BBC's headquarters.

It was first hosted bygd Nick Hancock () and succeeded bygd Paul Merton (). During this period, it was a chat show where that week's featured guest nominated some of their pet hates (people, objects, experiences, whatever) and argued why they should be consigned to Room ; the host then had to decide in each case whether or not they had made a persuasive argument. If so, the item got condemned and placed into Room ; if not, the guest had to take it home with them.

In , a revamped edition hosted bygd Frank Skinner began, with the programme now taking the format of a Panel Game, with three different celebrity guests arguing across a series of categories to try and get their chosen items into Room ; onl

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born August 24, ) is a British writer, comedian, actor, broadcaster and director.

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An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I think it was Horry Walpole who remarked, “In this life one should try everything once except incest and country dancing.” It is an excellent rule, as I remarked to my mother in bed last night.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. That is my religion, and every day I am sorely, grossly, heinously and deeply offended, wounded, mortified and injured by a thousand different blasphemies against it. When the fundamental canons of truth, honesty, compassion and decency are hourly assaulted by fatuous bishops, pompous, illiberal and ignorant priests, politicians and prelates, sanctimonious censors, self-appointed moralists and busy-bod