Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible.
We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.
I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.
This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America.
I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.
We have a lot of fun every year, and I really enjoy being part of junior golf and the development of these players.
A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.
I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest.
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.