QUIZ: Do You Speak American?: English Language Facts

QUIZ: Do You Speak American?

A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard Bailey’s "Speaking American" investigates the history and continuing evolution of our language from the sixteenth century to the present. When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America’s democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? Bailey asked himself these questions, now it’s time to ask yourself how well you really know your American English. We’ve composed a quiz for some Friday fun. Can you speak American?

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