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A panel of journalists joins Diane for review and analysis of the week’s top national and international news stories.
Tony Blankley, editorial page editor of "The Washington Times." He is author of "The West's Last Chance."
Linda Wertheimer, NPR Senior National Correspondent
Jerry Seib, Washington bureau chief, "The Wall Street Journal"
Two experts on American English, Allan Metcalf, author of How We Talk (Houghton Mifflin) and Joseph Pickett, editor of the American Heritage Dictionary (Houghton Mifflin), join Diane to talk about regional dialects and how they're changing, new words entering our vocabulary, and everything else that sets the English spoken in the U.S. apart from the rest of the Anglophone world.
Allan Metcalf, author of "How We Talk" (Houghton Mifflin) and expert on American English
Joseph Pickett, editor of the "American Heritage Dictionary" (Houghton Mifflin) and expert on American English
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