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astripedarmchair.wordpress.com - 15 days ago

Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue (thoughts)

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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue by John McWhorter is another book I read via review copy, and the publisher requested I post about it this week since the trade paperback edition has just hit the shelves here in the States. This is a nonfiction book about linguistics, specifically about the ...

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