MYTH 1 The Meanings of Words Should Not be Allowed to Vary or Change
Peter Trudgill
MYTH 2 Some Languages are Just Not Good Enough
Ray Harlow
MYTH 3 The Media are Ruining English
Jean Aitchison
MYTH 4 French is a Logical Language
Anthony Lodge
MYTH 5 English Spelling is Kattastroffik
Edward Carney
MYTH 6 Women Talk Too Much
Janet Holmes
MYTH 7 Some Languages are Harder than Others
Lars-Gunnar Andersson
MYTH 8 Children Can’t Speak or Write Properly Any More
James Milroy
MYTH 9 In the Appalachians They Speak like Shakespeare
Michael Montgomery
MYTH 10 Some Languages Have No Grammar
Winifred Bauer
MYTH 11 Italian is Beautiful, German is Ugly
Howard Giles and Nancy Niedzielski
MYTH 12 Bad Grammar is Slovenly
Lesley Milroy
MYTH 13 Black Children are Verbally Deprived
Walt Wolfram
MYTH 14 Double Negatives are Illogical
Jenny Cheshire
MYTH 15 TV Makes People Sound the Same
J. K. Chambers
MYTH 16 You Shouldn’t Say ‘It is Me’ because ‘Me’ is Accusative
Laurie Bauer
MYTH 17 They Speak Really Bad English Down South and in New York City
Dennis R. Preston
MYTH 18 Some Languages are Spoken More Quickly than Others
Peter Roach
MYTH 19 Aborigines Speak a Primitive Language
Nicholas Evans
MYTH 20 Everyone Has an Accent Except Me
John H. Esling