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Title: You Say Potato: A Book About Accents
Author: David Crystal, Ben Crystal
Narrator: David Crystal, Ben Crystal, Hilton Mcrae, Jane Savage
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 2015-05-21
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Genres: Language Instruction, Language Arts
Publisher's Summary:
Some people say sconn, 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. But how did all these accents come about, and why do people feel so strongly about them? Are regional accents dying out as English becomes a global language? And most importantly of all: what went wrong in Birmingham?
Witty, authoritative and jam-packed full of fascinating facts, You Say Potato is a celebration of the myriad ways in which the English language is spoken - and how our accents, in so many ways, speak louder than words.