Reading for F 9/14: Simon (1980); Language Myths #12

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For this Friday (9/14), please complete the following reading assignments:

1. Simon, John. 1980. ‘The Corruption of English’. In L. Michaels and C. Ricks (eds), The State of the Language, 35-42. Berkeley: University of California Press.

2. Milroy, Lesley. 1998. “Myth #12: Bad Grammar is Slovenly’. In L. Bauer and P. Trudgill (eds), Language Myths, 94-102. London: Penguin Books.

(Both readings are available as PDFs from the “Readings” section of this website.)