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Journal of Historical Linguistics
Vol. 4:1 (2014) ► pp.151–158
Book review

Richard J. Watts. Language Myths and the History of English. Richard J. Watts. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. xiv + 352 pp.

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