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Hello and welcome to the English We Speak.
I'm Fei Fei.
And I'm Neil.
Neil, why are you still here?
I thought you were driving to Manchester and Rob was going to present the programme.
Fei Fei, have you looked outside the window?
Er, no.
Should I?
It's a pea souper out there.
You want me to look out of the window at pea soup?
Is there a big bowl of it or something?
No, there's no soup.
It's an informal way of describing thick fog.
It's so thick you can hardly see through it.
And that's why I can't drive to Manchester.
That's a shame.
But why a pea?