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Author McWhorter, John H.

Title Our magnificent bastard tongue : the untold history of English / John McWhorter.

Publication Info. New York : Gotham Books, [2008]
©2008
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1322039~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  420.9 MCW    AVAILABLE
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Description xxiii, 230 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index.
Contents We speak a miscegenated grammar -- A lesson from the Celtic impact -- We speak a battered grammar -- Does our grammar channel our thought? -- Skeletons in the closet.
Subject English language -- History.
English language -- Etymology.
English language -- Foreign elements.
English language -- Foreign words and phrases.
Languages in contact.
ISBN 9781592403950
1592403956
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