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That is not to say that the book's theme is casual, for Honey comes to grips with social aspects of language that are seldom treated, even in a clinical manner, by linguists.
There can be no confuting the fact that the grammar of modern English—that is, the English in use for the past two centuries—differs little from that of earlier stages of the language: after all, languages are sorted and distinguished by linguists on the basis of their grammars, not their lexicons.
Linguists have demonstrated that the first lingua france (called Mediterranean Lingua Franca by many linguists) was actually spoken before the first Crusade began in A.D. 1096.
First, the word "ebonics," which dates back to the early 1970s and has been used even in some public-school settings without controversy for years, may seem to be putting on airs, but what many linguists prefer to call "Black English Vernacular" or "African-American Vernacular English" is a major linguistic stream that has been flowing within recognizable channels for centuries.
Justified falls among a class of words that also includes what linguists call modals ; the most notable of these are must, should , and can .