From English in America to American English
Streaming video - 2016
Explore how the English settlers gradually transformed themselves from colonists to American citizens, and how English in America became American English. Myriad dialects began to coalesce, and there was an explosion of linguistic creativity, especially in the creation of dialect words - Americanisms like "raccoon"and "bifocal”.
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- Educational films
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Great Courses
2016.
2017. - Language
- English
- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
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- Title from title frames.
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Film - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Playing Time
- 00:30:22
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).