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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

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Bill Bryson (Author)

Contributors: Bill Bryson (Author)

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BISAC categories: Language Arts & Disciplines -> Linguistics -> Historical & Comparative

BISAC categories: Humor -> Form -> Essays

BISAC categories: History -> Social History

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"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.

ISBN-10: 0380715430
ISBN-13: 9780380715435
Author: Bryson, Bill, N/A, N/A
Publisher: William Morrow & Company

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ISBN-13: 9780380715435

ISBN-10: 0380715430

Publish Date: September 1, 1991

On Sale Date: January 1, 0001

Language: English

Pages: 320

Dimensions: 7.8 × 5.2 × 0.8 in

Weight: 0.55 lbs

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