The book Speaking American: A History of English in the United States by Richard Bailey was a rather interesting read. The book, overall, provided an abundance amount of information about the history of the language majorly spoken in the United States of America today. If one needed to do research about American English for their history class, this would be the perfect source of information that dates all the way back to even before the 1650s. However, obtaining the knowledge is not as simple as the title may suggest; personally, for me, the author used words that were harder to understand and connect. The brilliant factual qualities were definitely dulled out by the occasional difficult to understand word choice in this book. Speaking American: