- Historical linguistics, Language and languages, origin
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Classical in form, cool, warm and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- John McWhorter
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- William Heinemann Ltd, Arrow Books Ltd, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781446472408
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“"Hebrew"" ""But why don' we speak Hebrew, Mom?"""”
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