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Everyday Language and Everyday Life
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Everyday Language and Everyday Life
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For years Richard Hoggart has observed the oddity of a common speech habit: the fondness for employing ready-made sayings and phrasings whenever we open our mouths, a disinclination to form our own sentences "from scratch", unless that becomes inescapable. Here, he is interested in more specific questions.
 
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