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May 01 2022
One #$@% Good Read
Nine Nasty W*rds: English in the Gutter; Then, Now, and Forever
. By McWhorter, John. New York
: Avery
, 2021
. Pp. 276
. ISBN 978-0593188798; $24 (ebk $13.99)
Donald L. Dyer
University of Mississippi
donald l. dyer is associate dean for faculty and academic affairs in the College of Liberal Arts and distinguished professor of modern languages at the University of Mississippi. He obtained his B.A. in Russian with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980 and his M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1990) in Slavic linguistics from the University of Chicago. His research interests include South Slavic, Balkan, Bulgarian, and Romanian linguistics. Email: mldyer@olemiss.edu.
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American Speech (2022) 97 (2): 224–229.
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Donald L. Dyer; One #$@% Good Read. American Speech 1 May 2022; 97 (2): 224–229. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9940603
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