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Speaking American

As many of us board planes for the Thanksgiving holiday, we’ll run into people from across the country who don’t exactly sound like us. This hour, we’ll talk about how one nation developed so many regional dialects – and about how to navigate these sub-languages – with Josh Katz, author of “Speaking American: How Y’all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).