You Say Potato (häftad, eng)

<p>Some people say <i>scohn</i>, while others say <i>schown</i>.<br><br>He says <i>bath</i>, while she says <i>bahth</i>.<br><br>You say <i>potayto</i>. I say <i>potahto</i><br><br>And-<br><br>-wait a second, no one says <i>potahto</i>.

No one's <i>ever</i> said <i>potahto</i>. <br><br>Have they?<br><br>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.<br><br>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?<br><br>Witty, authoritative and jam-packed full of fascinating facts, <i>You Say Potato</i> 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.</p>

Format	Häftad
Omfång	256 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Pan Macmillan
Utgivningsdatum	2015-05-21
ISBN	9781447255468