The Mother Tongue

Author : Bill Bryson

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 23 October 2001

ISBN : 9780380715435

Price : €21.05

Description

Vastly informative and vastly entertainingA 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 cant), 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 worlds largest growth industries.

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