“Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.”
Quote by John H. McWhorter
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John H. McWhorter
John H. McWhorter is a renowned linguist born in the United States in 1965. His research spans a wide range of linguistic fields, particularly focusing on language change, language contact, and language extinction. McWhorter's works cover areas from historical linguistics to sociolinguistics, making significant contributions to our understanding of linguistic diversity and language evolution. more
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