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looking for a Spanish port city in today’s Geo Quiz. This city is preparing to host the next America’s Cup sailing competition in February. There’s been some doubt about the venue for this major international sailing event. But barring a last minute appeal, the race will be staged in Spanish waters. The likely host city has been the venue before.
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In the latest podcast, an audio archive of British World War One POWs recorded by a German linguist. That’s followed by the story of how British convenience store chain Spar is re-writing wine labels in Scottish, Liverpudlian and other UK dialects. Then, how English might have sounded had the Saxons won the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Then, back to the the present day, as an ATM company uses cockney rhyming slang to dispense cash. Finally, American anglophiles on lorries, cricket bats and other linguistic oddities.
