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William Labov

"An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes to be at home is like a nightmare by Stephen King."

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Donna Grant

"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

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Donna Grant

"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."

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Donna Grant

"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes home is where the heart is, Eddie thought randomly. I believe that. Old Bobby Frost said home's the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unfortunately, it's also the place where, once you're in there, they don't ever want to let you out."

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Donna Grant

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."

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Donna Grant

"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home."

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Donna Grant

"I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America."

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Donna Grant

"Home is- Where the heart wants to dwell, Where the mind wants to dance, Where the air is always pleasant, And where love is always abundant."

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William Labov
"However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects."

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William Labov
"This African American Vernacular English shares most of its grammar and vocabulary with other dialects of English. But it is distinct in many ways, and it is more different from standard English than any other dialect spoken in continental North America."

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William Labov
"We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas."

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William Labov
"And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on."

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William Labov
"An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write."

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William Labov
"But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there."

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William Labov
"Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so."

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William Labov
"I am now completing research supported by NSF and NEH that is mapping changes in the English language through all of North America, for both mainstream and minority communities."

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William Labov
"It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century."

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