Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words - [AUDIOBOOK]

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Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words - [AUDIOBOOK]
mp3, pdf | 350.05 MB | Author: John McWhorter | Year: 2025


Description:

With his trademark humor and flair, bestselling linguist John McWhorter busts the myths and shares the history of the most controversial language topic of our times: pronouns

The nature of language is to shift and evolve-but every so often, a new usage creates a whole lot of consternation. These days, pronouns are throwing curveballs, and it matters, because pronoun habits die hard. If you need a refresher from eighth-grade English: Pronouns are short, used endlessly, and serve to point and direct, to orient us as to what is meant about who. Him, not her. Me, not you. Pronouns get a heavy workout, and as such, they become part of our hardwiring. To mess with our pronouns is to mess with us.

But many of today's hot-button controversies are nonsense. The singular they has been with us since the 1400s and appears in Shakespeare's works. In fact, many of the supposedly iron-clad rules of grammar are up for debate ( Billy and me went to the store is perfectly logical!), and with tasty trivia, unexpected twists, and the weird quirks of early and contemporary English, John McWhorter guides readers on a journey of how our whole collection of these little words emerged and has changed over time.

Category:Humor, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Linguistics & Semiotics, Anthropology & Archaeology, Anthropology, Essays and Individual Humorists, Historical (Diachronic) Linguistics, Language & Linguistics, Sociolinguistics

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