Students get lesson in how Americans talk from 'NewsHour' ex-anchor By Katie Humphrey AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, January 25, 2005 Y'all better get ready because the Texas drawl is the future of American English -- at least according to journalist Robert MacNeil, who has spent many years studying and chronicling how Americans talk. Maybe it's because of country music or migration from north to south, but any way you look at it, the number of people speaking with a Southern dialect -- particularly "Texan" -- is on the rise, MacNeil told about 270 area high school students who gathered at...