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Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
A Note on the Contributors
Introduction
Language Myths
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
MYTH 21: America is Ruining the English Language John Algeo
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