A Common Tongue: British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service

Title from data sheet; Also issued as videorecording; Narrator, Melvyn Bragg; Examines American contributions to the English language from a British point of view. Points out both innovations and corruptions that have evolved since the early Americans and includes interviews with Tom Wolfe who points out the benefits of new forms of expression and with Edwin Newman who warns against the use of euphemisms and overkill of popular phrases

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