Carol Ross Stacey put me on to my favorite linguist’s book, The Language Hoax, and I’m reading it. Just think it through, seems to be McWhorter’s motto. I will put onto my linguistics category some of the more interesting things he gives us.
I am reading Samuel Pepys’ diary, an edited version. So far, I have read only a page of it but came away with quite a few terrific examples of the English of the period that I can comment on. I will put the comments in my What English Teachers Don’t Know category.
The biggest change in my reading has been getting the NYT starting Nov. 12. It’s a slog to read everything I am interested in and will require some adjustment to my schedule of reading in my circuit and other reading, but tons of articles will feed this blog nicely.
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