You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents - Paperback

by Ben Crystal (Author), David Crystal (Author)

An authoritative, entertaining book about our accents, and what they say about us

Author Biography

Ben Crystal is an actor, producer, and writer. He played Hamlet in the first Original Pronunciation production of the play for 400 years with the Nevada Repertory Company, and curated the British Library's CD, Shakespeare's Original Pronunciation. He cowrote Shakespeare's Words and The Shakespeare Miscellany with his father, David Crystal, and his first solo book, Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard was shortlisted for the 2010 Educational Writer of the Year Award. He and his Shakespeare ensemble perform and give Shakespeare workshops around the world. David Crystal works as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. He has published extensively on the history and development of English, including The Stories of English, Evolving English, and Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling. He and Ben cowrote The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary of Shakespeare.