Our conversation about being criticized for using yes, ma’am and no, sir, prompted a letter from an Austin, Texas, listener who had a similar experience when she moved from Mississippi to Ohio. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of...
Mike from Irving, Texas, has a co-worker who regularly uses brung instead of brought. Is it okay to say “he brung something”? The word brung is a dialectal variant that has existed alongside brought for centuries. It appears in the...
green language n.— «Instead, they should be taught English as a second language, Robinson said, knowing that they’ll need to speak properly in order to get a job and earn a living.…Robinson calls standard English the “Green...