It Bears Mentioning

Substacknewsletter · by John McWhorter · English

Sometimes race, sometimes language, sometimes something else. Every week.

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It Bears Mentioning is a Substack newsletter by John McWhorter covering Substack, Podcasting and Linguistics. Its most recent indexed post is from Apr 7, 2022. Shown publicly on Substack: 33K subscribers.

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