Patricia O'Conner says that what Americans think of as a British accent is a fairly recent development. Roy Blount Jr. is a humorist, word maven and author. Dan Everett went to the Amazon as a young Christian missionary and became captivated by the Indian people and their totally unknown language. Arika Okrent tries out her Klingon, and explains why people make up languages. Irene Pepperberg teaches animal cognition at Harvard and worked with a remarkable grey parrot named Alex.
To the Best of Our Knowledge
