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\"Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit\"; a documentary on the English language, as spoken in the U.S., is airing on PBS.
ON COLUMBUS AVENUE in New York, a young waitress approaches our table and asks, \"How are you guys doin\'?\" My wife and I are old enough to be her grandparents, but we are \"you guys\" to her. Today, in American English, guys can be guys, girls, or grandmothers. Girls call themselves guys, even dudes. For a while, young women scorned the word girls, but that is cool again, probably because African-American women use it and it can be real cool--even empowering--to whites to borrow black talk, like the word cool. It is empowering to gay men to call themselves queer, once a hated homophobic term, but now used to satirize the whole shifting scene of gender attitudes in the TV reality show, \"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.\" As society changes, so does language, and American society has changed enormously in recent decades. Moreover, when new norms are...

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Title: DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?
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1. Do You Speak American?
   

   DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN? ... The results will appear as a book and a three-hour
   documentary, "Do You Speak American?" on PBS (Jan. 5, 8-11 pm). ...

2. Do You Have A Voice
   

   ... them again.” He is trying to get the American people to ... Wiesel is not afraid to speak
   his mind and tell the ... should be happy to have, and if you do not have a ...

3. Do You Have A Voice
   

   ... them again.” He is trying to get the American people to ... Wiesel is not afraid to speak
   his mind and tell the ... should be happy to have, and if you do not have a ...

4. Developing The American Identity
   

   ... Do unto all mean as you would me should do unto you?” (Narrative of ... writers began
   to gain their identity, question everything and speak against things ...

5. Being Bilingual
   

   ... Some of them do not even know how to speak ... that the teachers and the other children
   speak, and she's a full-blooded American citizen, you're abusing that ...