Language Myths/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Middlesex:
Penguin,
1998
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| Series: | Penguin books
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Table of Contents:
- The meanings of words hould not be allowed to vary or change/ Peter Trudgill
- Some languages are just not good enough/ Ray Harlow
- The media are ruining English/ Jean Aitchison
- French is a logical language/ Anthony Lodge
- English spelling is kattastroffik/ Edward Carney
- Women talk too much/ Janet Holmes
- Some languages are harder than others/ Lars-Gunnar Andersson
- Children canʹt speak or write properly any more/ James Milroy
- In the Appalachians they speak like Shakespeare/ Michael Montgomery
- Some languages have no grammar/ Winifred Bauer
- Italian is beautiful, German is ugly/ Howard Giles and Nancy Niedzielski
- Bad grammar is slovenly/ Lesley Milroy
- Black children are verbally deprived/ Walt Wolfram
- Double negatives are illogical/ Jenny Cheshire
- TV makes people sound the same/ J. K. Chambers
- You shouldnʹt say ʹit is meʹ because ʹmeʹ is accusative/ Laurie Bauer
- They speak really bad English down South and in New York City/ Dennis R. Preston
- Some languages are spoken more quickly than others/ Peter Roach
- Aborigines speak a primitive language/ Nicholas Evans
- Everyone has an accent except me/ John H. Esling
- America is ruining the English language/ John Algeo