Author, comedian and TV personality Gyles shares with us his love of language in light of his new book…
I was brought up to love the English language! My 7 grandchildren, however, aren’t interested in grammar but they can recite the rules of football backwards. I said to them, “You wouldn’t play football without rules and the English language is the same – know the rules and then you can break them.”
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