Great article about Obama's skill with style shifting by Sami Alim and Geneva Smitherman in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/opinion/sunday/obama-and-the-racial-politics-of-american-english.html?partner=rss&emc=rss Best, Leila -- Leila Monaghan, PhD Department of Anthropology University of Wyoming Laramie, Wyoming