Ebonics, which stands for Ebony + Phonics is a new term that Linguistics use to describe Black Dialect or Black English or many of the other names that it has been given for more that 350 years.. has been in the news recently but it is definitely not a new topic. Ebonics is a "language" that is a...

Bilingualism has had a bad rap lately. Prop 227, the Unz Initiative, successfully passed removing bilingual education from California schools replacing it with English immersion. For some reason, Americans feel that only one language is necessary and that language is English only. Although the ge...

In the early sixteen hundreds African Americans were being taken from their homeland, African, to be sold as slaves here in the United States. These African Americans, slaves, were separated from their tribes and were not able to communicate with other slaves, or their masters. There were and still ...

"She has a lot of chutzpah to talk like that!" Chutzpah is Yiddish for nerve. Yiddish came about between the ninth and twelfth centuries in southwestern Germany as an alteration of Middle High German dialects to the special needs of Jews. To the original German were added those Hebrew w...

Swift's Proposal One of the most important facts about the history of English language is that it passes through many difficulties and stages until it gets its stability. Stability of language is the main purpose of the Jonathan Swift in his letter to Earl of Oxford. Swift, an Irish author, is...

Wat up yo? Many of you are sitting there wondering what in the world I just said, while on the other hand part of you accept what I just said as every day speech. What am I talking about? Ebonics. The debate over Ebonics produces one of the biggest paradoxes of our time. There are many different ...