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Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
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‘More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to…’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.
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| Weight | 0.2 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2.4 × 12.8 × 19.6 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 288 |
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| Year Published | 2009-10-1 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0141040084 |
| About The Author | Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up there, but has spent most of his adult life in Britain. He has worked for a number of newspapers, including The Times and the Independent. His books on the English language include Mother Tongue and Troublesome Words, both published by Penguin. Bill Bryson is the author of several bestsellers including The Lost Continent, Neither Here Nor There, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, Notes from a Big Country, Down Under, A Short History of Nearly Everything, One Summer: America 1927 and his memoir, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His most recent bestseller is The Road to Little Dribbling. |
Not only fascinating but extremely funny |
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| Other text | The sort of linguistics I like, anecdotal, full of revelations, and with not one dull paragraph |
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