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A. J. Jacobs

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  • Anne Curzan

    Anne Curzan

    Anne Curzan is the Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, and Education and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, where she also currently serves as the... (more)

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