The language bar

by Victor Grove

$20 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

New York: Philsophical Library, 1950. 8vo, pp. v, 1 , 160; original cloth in grey printed mylar-protected dust jacket, jacket a bit worn, spine browned; a very good, sound copy. Shows howt he multiple derivation of the English vocabulary--Teutonic, Greek, Latin and French--erects a barrier more effective than wealth and status between the cultured minority and the uninstructed majority, and suggests how the barrier could be broken down by reforms in the

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