Some people say scohn, while others say schown. He says bath, while she says bahth. You say potayto. I say potahto And- -wait a second, no one says potahto. No one's ever said potahto. Have they? From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of Received Pronunciation, actor Ben Crystal and his linguist father David travel the world in search of the stories of spoken English. Everyone has an accent, though many of us think we don't. We all have our likes and dislikes about the way other people speak, and everyone has something to say about 'correct' pronunciation.
Language Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeSociolinguisticsPhonetics & PhonologyReference
RELEASED2015
PUBLISHERPan Macmillan
LENGTH352
LANGUAGEEN
You Say Potato A Book about Accents
by Ben Crystal, David Crystal
Some people say scohn, while others say schown. He says bath, while she says bahth. You say potayto. I say potahto And- -wait a second, no one says potahto. No one's ever said potahto. Have they? From reconstructing Shakespeare's accent to the rise and fall of Received Pronunciation, actor Ben Crystal and his linguist father David travel the world in search of the stories of spoken English. Everyone has an accent, though many of us think we don't. We all have our likes and dislikes about the way other people speak, and everyone has something to say about 'correct' pronunciation.
Language Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeSociolinguisticsPhonetics & PhonologyReferenceSpeech & Pronunciation
RELEASED2015
PUBLISHERPan Macmillan
LENGTH352
LANGUAGEEN
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