“That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.”
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John R. Rickford
John R. Rickford is a renowned academic researcher born on September 16, 1949. He has made significant contributions to the fields of phonetics and linguistic variation within linguistics. more
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