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How We Talk: American Regional English Today

Dave Wilton, Friday, January 05, 2007

Metcalf, Allan. How We Talk: American Regional English Today. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

A superb and highly readable review of American dialect.

Filed under: English Dialects

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