The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Bill Bryson$15.29
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With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson brilliantly 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 10/23/2001
ISBN: 9780380715435
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.32w x 0.65d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 08/02/1991