Note to Russian Schoolteachers
ARMOUR, RICHARD
NOTE TO RUSSIAN SCHOOLTEACHERS In Russian schools they are teaching English with an American accent.—News item. What kind of American accent, please? Midwestern or Southern or Brooklynese? We...
...You in little Red schoolhouses, Dnieper to Ural: Not American accent, but accents—it's plural...
...We don't have Queen's English, but do have Manhattan And Bronx, which to some is like Greek or like Latin...
...Richard Armour...
...We also have Oxford—that is, Oxford, Miss.— And English of Maine, which is sui generis, As well as the kind that is spoken in Texas And in movies by Russians called Mike or Alexis...
Vol. 41 • June 1958 • No. 23
