Table of Contents

Introduction; Pt. Language: A Living Organism; The Heart of the Matter: Lava Lamps and Language; Natural Seasonings: The Linguistic Melting Pot; Pt. Three Faces of Modern English through a New Lens; Leave Your Language Alone: The "Speech Error" Hoax; In Centenary Honor of Mark H. Liddell: The Shakespearean Tragedy; Missing the Nose on Our Face: Pronouns and the Feminist Revolution; Pt. Black English Is, Black English Ain't; Black English: Is You Is or Is You Ain't a Language?; An African Language in North Philadelphia?: Black English and the Mother Continent; Dialect in the Headlines: Black English in the Classroom?; Afterword: As We Travel On; Sources; Acknowledgments; Index