Proposals by a school board in California to recognize the dialect used by most of its pupils unleashed a ferocious media attack. Why did the press get things so wrong, and why were the proposals so virulently ridiculed?
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Pullum, G. Language that dare not speak its name. Nature 386, 321–322 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/386321a0
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