Do You Speak American?: Up North

Robert MacNeil Looks at Local Dialects (3:58)

Dialect Areas of North America (2:56)

Dynamics That Change the Language (4:30)

Prescriptivism and Descriptivism (3:09)

Threats to Written English (4:13)

Search for Standard American English (4:13)

American Attitudes Towards Dialects (2:58)

Pittsburghese: Importance of Place (2:41)

Midland American Dialect (3:04)

American Newspapers and Language (2:40)

Spoken American English (2:38)

History of Black English (5:39)

Controversy Over Black English (5:55)

Hip-Hop Street Talk and Music (4:04)

Introduction (1:13)

beginning of english (0:14)