Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard EnglishThough there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing -- not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions, and eschewing politically correct arguments, linguist John McWhorter considers speech patterns and regional accents to demonstrate just how the changes do occur. Wielding reason and humor, McWhorter ultimately explains why we must embrace these changes, ultimately revealing our American English in all its variety, expressiveness, and power. |
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Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. change operating in any language, like jabbing a stick between the spokes of a spinning bicycle wheel. Those of us who have taken Latin recall that, unlike English, Latin ...
Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. change operating in any language, like jabbing a stick between the spokes of a spinning bicycle wheel. Those of us who have taken Latin recall that, unlike English, Latin ...
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Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. example, was “swētlike” (swētlīce) in Old English. Over time, the erosion of sounds that we have seen turned like, when used at the end of words in this way, into Ay ...
Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. example, was “swētlike” (swētlīce) in Old English. Over time, the erosion of sounds that we have seen turned like, when used at the end of words in this way, into Ay ...
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Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. snapshot of a person, a fleeting image of an organism always in transformation. The snapshot freezes this image in a scrapbook, but the person stopped looking precisely like ...
Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. snapshot of a person, a fleeting image of an organism always in transformation. The snapshot freezes this image in a scrapbook, but the person stopped looking precisely like ...
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... standard English, it may take a blink or two to wrap your head around some of them, especially the Scots. However, all of them are obviously variations on a single plan. They are all dialects of the English language (represented in the ...
... standard English, it may take a blink or two to wrap your head around some of them, especially the Scots. However, all of them are obviously variations on a single plan. They are all dialects of the English language (represented in the ...
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Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. English (as shown in this figure). As we have seen, there is simply no logical way in which standard English is any way “primal” or “ideal” or “first”—in no sense, for example ...
Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English John Mcwhorter. English (as shown in this figure). As we have seen, there is simply no logical way in which standard English is any way “primal” or “ideal” or “first”—in no sense, for example ...
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