Do You Speak American?Language lovers have a wonderful, new book to embrace, Do You Speak American?, written by Robert MacNeil Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, known sometimes as Robin, (born January 19, 1931) is currently a novelist and formerly was a television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975. and William Cran, one of the retired PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, television newscaster's fellow authors (along with Robert McCrum Robert McCrum is a literary Editor of The Observer and former editor at Faber & Faber. McCrum writes regular reviews and is also co-author of The Story of English (McCrum, Robert, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil. New York: Elisabeth Sifton, 1986) and P. ) of the 1986 The Story of English. Both books are companion volumes to PBS series on language. Do Your Speak American? is an entertaining, informative, and non-prescriptive tour of American English American English n. The English language as used in the United States. Noun 1. American English - the English language as used in the United States American language, American . It's 230 pages, $16.29 in hardcover, $13.00 in paperback, published by Nan A. Talese, an Imprint of Doubleday, a division of Random House, 2005. Run, don't walk, to your nearest bookstore--or online merchant. |
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