The New York Times bestseller now in paperback. One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and tab

With his trademark humor and flair, the bestselling linguist and renowned professor busts the myths and shares the history of the most controversial language to

There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, i