Mother Tongue: The English Language by Bill Bryson

Mother Tongue: The English Language

Bill Bryson

270 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words like shampoo, sofa and rowdy (and others drawn from over fifty languages) find their way into our di...

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