Language that dare not speak its name

Geoffrey K. Pullum ()
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Nature, 1997, vol. 386, issue 6623, 321-322

Abstract: Proposals by a school board in California to recognize the dialect used by most of its pupils unleashed a ferocious media attack. Why did the press get things so wrong, and why were the proposals so virulently ridiculed?

Date: 1997
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