Mother Tongue

Bryson, Bill

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Packed with fascinating facts on the English language, ‘Mother Tongue’ is an entertaining and didactic investigation of the influence and distribution of the language worldwide and its origins as a second-rate tongue spoken by peasants.

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Publish Date: 01/10/2009
ISBN: 9780141040080 Category: Tag:

Description

‘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 202 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 17 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

269

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

428.2 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K