Rosemarie Ostler holds a PhD in linguistics and has been interviewed on numerous radio programs, including NPR's Tell Me More and The Bob Edwards Show. She is the author of four books about American English: Founding Grammars; Slinging Mud; Let's Talk Turkey; and Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers.
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The story of how English became American—and how it became Southern, Bostonian, Californian, African American, Chicano, elite, working-class, urban, rural, and everything in between By the time of the Revolution, the English that Americans sp... SEE MORE