Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What if all the intro to linguistics textbooks, and a handful of other resources are flat out wrong about the most famous linguistics study? Everybody is familiar with Labov's department store study, but I suggest we have been looking at it all wrong. For 60 years. Sociolinguists might not like this one.

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