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???? What does the English verb 'to ghost write' mean? It's nothing to do with ghost stories, ghost trains or ghost towns! And why do celebrities these days tend to use ghost writers to write their life stories for them? Learn more while you improve your English vocabulary knowledge AND practise your English listening with this archive episode of the BBC Learning English programme 6 Minute English. Do you read books by celebrity authors? Tell us in the comments ????????????

Useful vocabulary:
✔️ ghost write - write a book or article for another person, so they can pretend that they wrote it.
✔️ no-holds-barred - without any limits or controls
✔️ stilted style - style that doesn't flow very well, and doesn't sound natural or elegant
✔️ coherent - well-structured
✔️ to be credited - to have your contribution to something (for example, writing a book) acknowledged
✔️ becoming more mainstream - becoming more widely known and accepted
✔️ stepping out of the closet - becoming known, no longer a secret
✔️ to be savvy - if you're savvy about something, you know and understand it

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English Rewind is a collection of programmes from the BBC Learning English archive. This episode of 6 Minute English was first published on the BBC Learning English website in June 2008.

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