Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage

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Call Number: BOCD 417.7 McW Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 6-week checkout	BOCD 417.7 McW Oversize	6-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Alarm over the decay of English -- Surprises in the ancestry of Old English -- Not exactly Anglo-Saxon -- Don't forget the Celtic connection -- From insider language to Lingua Franca -- English as easy German -- The Viking conquest of English -- How the words of modern English emerged -- Black English-- the streamlining continues -- Honored conceits of blackboard grammar -- Pronoun fashions come and go -- Wrong then, proper now-- and vice versa -- A procession of accidents and fossils -- The pursuit of logic in language -- Clarity as the logic of language -- 20th-century fashions from Strunk & White -- The kinds of grammar you don't hear about -- Linguists uncovering grammar we all use -- Speech versus writing-- different languages -- Speechmaking-- from oratory to plain speaking -- The old and new styles of writing -- Got poetry? Language with spice -- Why texting is misunderstood -- The living past and future of English.
Professor John McWhorter, Columbia University.

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