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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Bill Bryson

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Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English.

From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation; Bryson covers all this as well as the many curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn as it is flexible to use.

Bill Bryson's classic Mother Tongue is a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language.

Format:

Pages:: 270 pages

Publication:: 1991

Publisher:: William Morrow Paperbacks

Edition:: Reissue

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0380715430

ISBN13:: 9780380715435

kindle Asin:: B00T3DR56C

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Bill Bryson

3.91/5 (36431 ratings)

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Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English.

From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation; Bryson covers all this as well as the many curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn as it is flexible to use.

Bill Bryson's classic Mother Tongue is a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language.

Format:

Pages:: 270 pages

Publication:: 1991

Publisher:: William Morrow Paperbacks

Edition:: Reissue

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0380715430

ISBN13:: 9780380715435

kindle Asin:: B00T3DR56C

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