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Okay, right, so here's a new episode and in this one I'm going to tell you the results of the

Luke's English podcast Anecdote competition so you're

going to find out who won and then I'm going to respond to some comments, questions and

messages from listeners including an amazing family story from World War I, a grammar question about noun phrases,

plurals and apostrophes, and also a question about my dad's accent. Okay, so some competition news, an

interesting story, some grammar stuff and a bit about different accents, that's

what you're going to get in this episode.

So let's start and here's the jingle.

You're listening to Luke's English podcast.

For more information, visit teacherloop.co.uk. UK. Hello everyone. Welcome back to Luke's English podcast. How are you doing out there

in podcast land? Are you all right? You are? You're in kind of a good mood? That's good. Glad to hear it. I don't know why you're in a good mood. But why not? Why not? Why shouldn't you be in a good mood on a day like today? Yeah, I know, I know, you should be in a good mood.

There's not really any reason why you shouldn't except for all of the things that are going on in the world.

But never mind all that right now.

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