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  • My own experience sometimes is that I turn on the wireless so as to be sure I am not late with the news and I am compelled to listen to back-chat by performers professionally known as comics in which the English tongue is debased almost beyond recognition.

    From the archive, 20 January 1943: Extremes in spoken English 2012

  • But for all her friends and back-chat, she never really fitted in.

    Lauren Laverne: 'Let's face it, TV's not brain surgery' 2010

  • One of the things I observed before starting this project was that Metanomics can be as much about the back-chat as it is about the show itself.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009

  • Whether a Norse warrior would really have put up with quite so much defiant back-chat from a girl he bought in a slave market is perhaps a moot point, but Flane admits to a friend that Emer intrigues him, and maybe that is explanation enough.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Carla 2009

  • Whether a Norse warrior would really have put up with quite so much defiant back-chat from a girl he bought in a slave market is perhaps a moot point, but Flane admits to a friend that Emer intrigues him, and maybe that is explanation enough.

    Far After Gold, by Jen Black. Book review Carla 2009

  • One of the things I observed before starting this project was that Metanomics can be as much about the back-chat as it is about the show itself.

    Keystone Bouchard, building community with prims Bettina Tizzy 2009

  • This is one of the good Terrance Dicks novelisations, of the 1975 TV story Terror of the Zygons, the second Season 12 Fourth Doctor story to be written up (after Doctor Who and the Giant Robot), and one of the good early Dicks efforts: decent efforts at background characterisation given for Sarah, Harry and the Brigadier, and much entertaining back-chat between the Doctor and both his allies and his enemies.

    December Books 9) Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster webcowgirl 2007

  • Bring a laptop or other wifi-enabled device, as we'll have copious bandwith to enable you to blog, twitter, back-chat and otherwise connect with each other (though no downloading of big movie files will be tolerated).

    PdF2008 Schedule for June 24, Day Two 2008

  • Bring a laptop or other wifi-enabled device, as we'll have copious bandwith to enable you to blog, twitter, back-chat and otherwise connect with each other (though no downloading of big movie files will be tolerated).

    PdF2008 Schedule for June 23, Day One 2008

  • She doesn't suffer fools gladly, but they suffer if they give her any back-chat.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

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