2024-01-07
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Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm senior producer Connor Boyle.
Coming up on the podcast, Rob Drummond, the linguist, whose recent book your all talk explores the enormous diversity found within the spoken word across the UK, from the nuances of regional accents to dialects and slang.
In conversation is intelligence words.
Executive producer Hannah K.
Lets join Hannah now with more today.
Im delighted to have as our guest Rob Drummond.
Rob, welcome to Intelligence Squared.
Thank you very much.
Rob is professor of sociolinguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, where his research explores the relationship between spoken language and identity.
He recently completed a large research project called Manchester Voices, which investigated the accents, dialects, and identities of of people in Greater Manchester.