An authoritative, entertaining book about our accents, and what they say about
us
Some people say scohn, 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