[Free read ebook] The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way
✿ Bill Bryson ✿
| #12055 in Books | Bryson, Bill | 1990 | 2001-10-23 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.72 x5.31l,.45 | File Name: 0380715430 | 272 pages | Harper Perennial
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Entertaining and informative|By Mark from Haifa|I learned a lot about the English language from reading this book, even though I had already read other books on the subject. I recommend it even though it is somewhat out of date, having been written about 30 years ago. Also, I get the impression that the author is not a scholar of the field, but rather has done an excellent jo|.com |Who would have thought that a book about English would be so entertaining? Certainly not this grammar-allergic reviewer, but The Mother Tongue pulls it off admirably. Bill Bryson--a zealot--is the right man for the job. Who else could rhapsodize a
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—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 develope...
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