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ALSO BY JOHN MCWHORTER

Towards

a

New

Model

of

Creole

Genesis

The

Missing

Spanish

Creoles:

Recovering

the

Birth

of

Plantation

Contact

Languages

Word

on

the

Street:

Debunking

the

Myth

of

a

Pure

Standard

English

Spreading

the

Word:

Language

and

Dialect

in

America

Losing

the

Race:

Self-Sabotage

in

Black

America

The

Power

of

Babel:

A

Natural

History

of

Language

Authentically

Black:

Essays

for

the

Black

Silent

Majority

Doing

Our

Own

Thing:

The

Degradation

of

Language

and

Music

and

Why

We

Should ,

Like ,

Care

Defi

ning

Creole

Winning

the

Race:

Beyond

the

Crisis

in

Black

America

All

About

the

Beat:

Why

Hip-Hop

Cant

Save

Black

America

Our

Magnifi

cent

Bastard

Tongue:

The

Untold

History

of

English

Linguistic

Simplicity

and

Complexity:

Why

Do

Languages

Undress ?

WHAT

LANGUAGE

IS

(And

What

It

Isn't

and

What

It

Could

Be)

J

o

h

n

M c W horter

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What

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what

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