Myth 1. The meanings of words should not be allowed to vary or change / Peter Trudgill
Myth 2. Some languages are just not good enough / Ray Harlow
Myth 3. The media are ruining English / Jean Aitchison
Myth 4. French is a logical language / Anthony Lodge
Myth 5. English spelling is kattastroffik / Edward Carney
Myth 6. Women talk too much / Janet Holmes
Myth 7. Some languages are harder than others / Lars-Gunnar Andersson
Myth 8. Children can't speak or write properly any more / James Milroy
Myth 9. In the Appalachians they speak like Shakespeare / Michael Montgomery
Myth 10. Some languages have no grammar / Winifred Bauer
Myth 11. Italian is beautiful, German is ugly / Howard Giles and Nancy Niedzielski
Myth 12. Bad grammar is slovenly / Lesley Milroy
Myth 13. Black children are verbally deprived / Walt Wolfram
Myth 14. Double negatives are illogical / Jenny Cheshire
Myth 15. TV makes people sound the same / J.K. Chambers
Myth 16. You shouldn't say "it is me" because "me" is accusative / Laurie Bauer
Myth 17. They speak really bad English down South and in New York City / Dennis R. Preston
Myth 18. Some languages are spoken more quickly than others / Peter Roach
Myth 19. Aborigines speak a primitive language / Nicholas Evans
Myth 20. Everyone has an accent except me / John H. Esling
Myth 21. America is ruining the English language / John Algeo.