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Review published In: English World-Wide
Vol. 20:2 (1999) ► pp.322–328

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John McWhorter. The Word on the Street: Fact and Fable about American English. New York, London: Plenum Trade, 1998. 294 pp. $27.95 USA 38.95 CAN

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 | Georgetown University
Published online: 13 March 2000
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