You Are What You Speak: the cover
July 29, 2010
This is pleasingly official-looking: the book now has a page at RandomHouse.com. And the cover is now for all the world to see.
“American English – what’s that?”, Macmillan Dictionary Blog,
“To move between accents and dialects is part of human language behavior. But to me it seems poignantly and particularly American, with physical movement and social aspiration so big part of the national story. An American can be someone who says y’all come back or foath floah, or, just as easily, someone who has tried them both and more…”
YOU ARE WHAT YOU SPEAK
February 7, 2011
"A flinty, fact-packed fun-house of a book" - John McWhorter, author of Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue and Losing the Race, from the Foreword.Read more
"A flinty, fact-packed fun-house of a book" - John McWhorter, author of Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue and Losing the Race, from the Foreword.Read more
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