It contains a version of the Cornish language poem Passio Christi, as well as an examination of the contemporary decline of the Cornish language.

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And in the cellblock tango, they really did try and use some of the language of contemporary music videos in a Fosse dance scene.

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Professor Nigel Leask, regius professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow, said Burns read widely in the contemporary literature on the subject while he was being trained.

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Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited, a new tribute album, turns a cross-section of contemporary artists Cat Power and Michael Stipe among them loose on English-language versions of some of his best-known songs.

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