Mother Tongue: The English Language

Bill Bryson

Mother Tongue: The English Language
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 September 2008
Pages
288
ISBN
9780141037462

Mother Tongue: The English Language

Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson’s Mother Tongue is a hymn to the English language. In examining how a second-rate, mongrel tongue came to be the undisputed language of the globe. Bryson explores English from America to Australia and looks at, among other things, swearing, spelling, spoonerisms and Scrabble. No self-respecting English speaker should open his mouth without reading it.

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