Friday, April 16, 2004
On the Nightstand
I finally received the batch of books I ordered for my birthday nearly a month ago. In case you want some forewarning of what might be inspiring future linguistic ramblings, I will soon (as soon as the semester is over) be reading:
I finally received the batch of books I ordered for my birthday nearly a month ago. In case you want some forewarning of what might be inspiring future linguistic ramblings, I will soon (as soon as the semester is over) be reading:
- The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
- Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a "Pure" Standard English by John McWhorter
- Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue by Walt Wolfram
- The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss
- Growing Up Bilingual by Ana Celia Zentella
- Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language by Steven Pinker
