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Do You Speak American? The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection

Do You Speak American?

"Do You Speak American?" is the companion website for a film that takes us cross- country to examine the dynamic state of American English & ask: Why do Maine lobstermen & Texas cowboys speak English so differently? How many varieties of American English are there? Is TV making us all sound the same? Topics include 100 common mispronunciations, how language is changing, local color in American literature, & regional writers. (NEH) http://www.pbs.org/speak/

The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection

"The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection" contains 130 newspaper clippings, photos, & materials from a scrapbook kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Better known as Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's "Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) & "Through the Looking-Glass" (1871), Dodgson was a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Oxford. (LOC) http://international.loc.gov/intldl/carrollhtml/