Do You Speak American?Is the growing influence of Spanish threatening to displace English in the United States? Are America's grammatical standards in serious decline? Has the media saturation of our culture homogenized our speech? These and other questions catapulted Robert MacNeil and William Cran, coauthors of the language classic The Story of English, on a journey that took them around the country in search of answers. Do You Speak American?, the companion volume to a

[Bass] transports us along on this wonder-filled tour

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and spellbinding prose that have made him a bestselling author

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author of A Grand Old Time

or Banana Bread Pudding

and this debut is such a pleasure

”—Jack Canfield

fly as straight as an arrow

Magarey Medal for Biography 2010

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