Thursday 25 March 2010 10:00am

Christ Church Festival Room 2 (Downstairs)
Christ Church, St. Aldates, Oxford OX1 1DP

Few things so readily spark a lively debate as the use and perceived misuse of English. But are we too protective of our language? Too prescriptive even? Does English need defending? Susie Dent, author of How to Talk like a Local and the resident dictionary expert and adjudicator on Channel 4's long-running game show Countdown, Henry Hitchings, author of The Secret Life of Words (winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award) and Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford will debate the issues. Julie Summers, who has been known to coin the odd new word, will chair.

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