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Music

The song accompanying Paul's life-changing jokes: “Sax Attack” by Dougie Wood.
Outro: “Gisele Revisited” by South London HiFi.

The following images were used under Creative Commons share-alike license:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M%C3%A5lformer_i_Norge.svg Authors: Kåre-Olav, Røed

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Norske_M%C3%A5lgreiner.png Author: Eivindgh

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oslo.png Author: Saintjos

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00:00 Brainstorming session with Mickey
00:40 The origin and classification of Norwegian
01:55 The origins of Bokmål and Nynorsk
04:27 Bokmål pronunciation & Orthography
09:16 Bokmål grammar
13:59 Side by side comparison of Bokmål and Nynorsk
17:51 Final comments
18:22 The Question of the Day