# A Common Tongue

Title from data sheet

Also issued as videorecording

Narrator, Melvyn Bragg

Examines American contributions to the English language from a British point of view. Points out both innovations and corruptions that have evolved since the early Americans and includes interviews with Tom Wolfe who points out the benefits of new forms of expression and with Edwin Newman who warns against the use of euphemisms and overkill of popular phrases

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1976
- Runtime: 57 min
- By: British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/acommontongue)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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