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Rob and Jess are touring the US and the UK in search of the most interesting city name origin stories.
💨 Does ‘Chicago’ have anything to do with wind?
🗽 Is New York actually named after York?
🚇 Does anyone know what ‘London’ means?
🏹 And what was Nottingham’s hilarious old name?
Find out as we climb aboard the etymological city-hopper in another wordy, nerdy Words Unravelled.
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Sue Perkins explores the house of Samuel Johnson – author of ‘A Dictionary of the English Language’.
Published in 1755, this book was to set the standard for all future dictionaries.
Comedian Sue also pays a visit to the British Library for a whirlwind tour of the earliest English dictionaries, with all their attendant quirks and oddities.
With:
* Biographer, Henry Hitchens
* Oxford English Dictionary Editor, John Simpson
* Antiquarian bookseller, Karen Thomson
Producer: Sarah Jane Hall
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009.
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