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Failures in Polymathy

– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

June 20, 2025June 14, 2025

Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words – John McWhorter

John McWhorter once again does a great job giving us a little bit of linguistics with humor

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Current Events, English, Linguistics, Politics, Reviews that are really about something else  0 Comments

April 21, 2023April 21, 2022

Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A “Pure” Standard English – John McWhorter

Wherein I don’t so much review a book as I review John McWhorter.

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English, History, Humour, Linguistics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

May 20, 2022August 14, 2021

Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever – John McWhorter

John McWhorter is a favorite of mine, so I am admittedly biased. But I enjoyed it.

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized  1 Comment

January 11, 2019December 5, 2018

What Language is – John McWhorter

John McWhorter has a gift for making an understanding of language easy and accessible.

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction  1 Comment

June 1, 2018May 5, 2018

Talking Back, Talking Black – John McWhorter

Few topics are as controversial as the state of AAVE in the USA.

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