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Hello listeners and welcome back to Luke's English podcast, a podcast for learners of English around the world.

My aim with these episodes is to help you get plenty of English input into your life on a regular basis, in the form of listening, in this case.

Doing plenty of listening, I think, is vital to help you develop the proper, broad range of

English skills, which incorporates your familiarity with the spoken word, English as it is spoken.

So this episode today is called Questions of English and Listener Comments, Bits and Bob's

Part 4. And in this episode, I'm going to continue the bits and

Bob's series, which I started last year. Do you remember bits and bobs parts one, two and three? Of course

you do. How could you forget? So this one, as I said, is called Questions of English and Listener

comments. The idea behind the bits and Bob's title, what does bits and bobs actually mean? Well, the idea behind this

title is that the episode is going to include a variety of different questions, language points and

topics. So it's a collection of bits and bobs. Okay. This one is going to include things like this,

so a bit of grammar, specifically how to identify the difference between had and would when they are contracted, because I'm sure you've noticed both of those words are contracted to an apostrophe D in written English.

Also, in spoken English, when we say them quickly, they get contracted in pronunciation,

and they can be indistinguishable sometimes.

And that can be more complex than you might think.

So we'll deal with that.

Also, some vocabulary.

I'm going to talk about the curious origins of the word podcast.

And also, I'll give you a mini vocabulary lesson about the word cast with various

collocations and also words formed with this morpheme and if you don't know what a morpheme is

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