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TOME RAIDER: Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

By JOHN MINERVINI
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Each week, WW writer John Minervini brings you the latest in book reviews, author Q&A's and Portland literary gossip. Click here to join the Tome Raider mailing list.
Beowulf.
are
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue (Gotham Books, 197 pages, $22.50)
Miscegenated English
Bastard Tongue
The Oxford History of Britain.
Bastard Tongue
The Canterbury Tales,
'We are got acquainted?'
Bastard Tongue

WWeek 2015