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Robert MacNeil and William Cran. Do You Speak American? New York: Doubleday, 2005.
Is American English in decline? Are regional dialects dying out? Is there a difference in how men and women adapt to linguistic variations? These and other questions about American English motivated Robert MacNeil - past cohost of PBS's The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour- and William Cran to canvass the country in search of the answers. This book (the title comes from a comment by Bono, lead singer of U2, after being fined by the FCC for swearing) is the result...