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Words are Dangerous…in this Comedy Sketch

You’ll never forget a figure of speech again…

This is one of my favourite YouTube videos. I gather it’s become a regular feature in many High School classrooms. If you know of any others that have made you smile, share the link in comments section below.

3 comments on “Words are Dangerous…in this Comedy Sketch”

  1. beth
    October 14, 2023
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  2. Sarah Waldock
    October 14, 2023
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    on the subject of language in comedy sketches, this one is hilarious. it’s from ‘how I accidentally started world war 2’ and is when the hero is using an assumed name to mess with the heads of the SS.

    https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-e&q=grzegorz+brz%C4%99czyszczykiewicz#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:c7cb9421,vid:AfKZclMWS1U,st:0

    the combination szcz [shch] is a single letter in cyrillics kinda like a long x with a line through the middle. Poles just do it with a collection of consonants which take practice to say, never mind spell. the diacritic under the e in Brzeczyszczkiewicz which I can’t put in make it ‘en’ as pronounced in French.

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