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Language and Class

October 19, 2006 Thursday 3PM CT ( listen)
This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Emily Auerbach and her guest explore issues of language and class in regionalisms and local dialects like spanglish, ebonics, ghetto slang, and cockney. The rain in Spain?

Guest

  • Joan Houston Hall, Chief Editor of Dictionary of American Regional English
  • Nicholas Ostler, author of Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World

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