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· Nov 19, 2020 · 09:00 am
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· May 22, 2019 · 11:30 pm
The traditional British red telephone booth is undergoing a 21st-century makeover

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· Dec 20, 2016 · 11:30 pm

Watch: How vision and hearing-impaired people communicate with each other

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· Dec 08, 2016 · 11:00 am
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The discovery that 'Huh?' crops up in many languages may have won the researchers an Ig Nobel Prize. But they found much more than that in their search for the universals in language.

Nick Enfield, The Conversation
· Oct 09, 2015 · 11:30 pm
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