Video List
My Big Fat Greek Wedding – Etymology of ‘kimono’
Celebrating Chiac
Radio Radio – Jacuzzi
Raitin Jamiekan Di Jamiekan Wie
Tongues of our Fathers (Jamaican creoles)
Grammar Nazis
That’s so gay
Metalanguage about the verbal phrase ‘be like’
Is is is a problem?
Irregardless: a double negative
Erin McKean on dictionaries and the history of English
How English sounds to Italians? Crazy ancestor to hip-hop? You decide
‘I am Canadian’ commercial
Cee Lo Green – “Forget” You
Samuel L. Jackson interview
Fairy godmother
My BFF Jill
Funny German commercial
Do women talk too much?
Why do people in old movies talk weird?
Bill Labov on the Northern Cities Vowel Shift
Newfoundland English: A ‘nonstandard’ dialect spoken in Canada
Alabama political ad on English Only
Language Map of the US (by native language)
American Dialects (simple version)
American Dialects (complicated version)
Barbara Johnstone speaks on ‘Pittsburghese’
A discussion of African American English in Ann Arbor
African American English in ‘Springville’
The Terror of Highbrow Pronunciation