The Mother Tongue : English and How It Got That Way
By Bill Bryson"Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." --Los Angeles Times
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language.
From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.
Book details
- Paperback
- 272 pages
- English
- 0380715430
- 9780380715435
About Bill Bryson
william mcguire "bill" bryson, obe, frs was born in des moines, iowa, in 1951. he settled in england in 1977, and worked in journalism until he became a fu Read More about Bill Bryson
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