Do You Speak American?
by Robert MacNeil & William Cran · Robert MacNeil & William Cran
Companion volume to the PBS series, reporting a cross-country tour of American English: Southern speech, African American Vernacular, Californian shifts, Spanglish. Readers come away understanding regional variation and the politics of judging how other people talk.
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