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You Say Potato: A Book About Accents (Record no. 405)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781447249696
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 427.9
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Crystal, Ben
9 (RLIN) 359977
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title You Say Potato: A Book About Accents
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Main Market Ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. United Kingdom;
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Pan Macmillan;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2014
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 247 Pages;
Other physical details Hardback
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Some people say sconn, 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 to say about 'correct' pronunciation. But how did all these accents come about, and why do people feel so strongly about them? Are regional accents dying out as English becomes a global language? And most importantly of all: what went wrong in Birmingham? Witty, authoritative and jam-packed full of fascinating facts, You Say Potato is a celebration of the myriad ways in which the English language is spoken - and how our accents, in so many ways, speak louder than words.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element English
9 (RLIN) 359978
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Language: History & General works
9 (RLIN) 359979
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Crystal, David
9 (RLIN) 359980
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  Lost Dewey Decimal Classification     Karachi Karachi Language and Literature 15/06/2016 10 427.9 PKLC005039 22/10/2020 22/10/2020 15/06/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17 8 15/01/2022
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Lahore Lahore Language and Literature 06/05/2016 6 427.9 PKLC008652 07/08/2018 05/08/2018 06/05/2016 Book Adult and Young Adult 15-17