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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. To Oversee Oxford’s ‘African American English’ Dictionary

By Cori Zaragoza, Staff Writer Oxford University Press has announced that it will undertake a three year project to create a dictionary of “African American English.” Additionally, Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Black Harvard literary critic, will be overseeing the project, according to the University.  “Every speaker of American English borrows heavily from words invented […]

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