"Negro dialect" part 2

Amy West medievalist at W-STS.COM
Thu Jan 14 14:22:16 UTC 2010


And another. The Boston Globe had bits by Jeff Jacoby and John
McWhorter on it yesterday. I just finished reading parts, and copying
parts of McWhorter's _The Word on the Street: Facts and Fables about
American English_. It's very good: both sound and accessible.

---Amy

>Date:    Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:01:29 -0500
>From:    Geoff Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Quoted without comment
>
>And one of our own has much better things to say:
>
>http://www.tnr.com/blogs/john-mcwhorter
>
>Geoff
>
>Geoffrey S. Nathan
>Faculty Liaison, C&IT
>and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
>+1 (313) 577-1259 (C&IT)
>+1 (313) 577-8621 (English/Linguistics)

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