Birmingham to Plymouth Tape 2 01 04 003

Two females from England. 20s. Students and bar workers. One is from Birmingham, the other from Plymouth (Vic). Discussing the question 'what are some of the biggest problems in the country?' The first girl doesn't like asylum seekers and thinks England is too small for all the people coming in. There aren't enough jobs and the pay is bad. Thinks people should go to Russia instead, since it's so much bigger. The second girl believes it's evolution. She's studied biology. She thinks the problems are too big to be solved by any individual, you can't do a lot by yourself, so you shouldn't lose sleep over it. Talks about a Russian sub catastrophe. Says mammals might not be the future, could be something else. 

England, Birmingham, Plymouth, student, bar, Russia, wages, overpopulation, mammals, evolution, biology, submarine, catastrophe, conscience

 

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west. The Irish Sea lies northwest of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain (which lies in the North Atlantic) in its centre and south, and includes over 100 smaller named islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.

 The first authoritative and full featured English dictionary, the Dictionary of the English Language, was published by Samuel Johnson in 1755. To a high degree, the dictionary standardised both English spelling and word usage. Meanwhile, grammar texts by Robert Lowth, Lindley Murray, Joseph Priestly, and others attempted to prescribe standard usage even further.