You Say Potato
A Book About Accents
Some people say scohn, while others say schown.He says bath, while she says bahth.You say potayto. I say potahtoAnd--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. But how did all these accents come about, and why do people feel so st…
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Weitere Autoren: Crystal, David
- ISBN: 978-1-4472-7666-1
- EAN: 9781447276661
- Produktnummer: 16812296
- Verlag: Pan Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'346 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 16 J.
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Ben Crystal,David Crystal
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