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The Mother Tongue — English And How It Got That Way |
Authors and Contributors: | Bill Bryson. |
Publisher: | William Morrow & Co.. 1990. |
Detail: | Pages: 270. ISBN: 0888078958. Hardcover. Condition: Book: Very Good. / Dustjacket: Very Good. First Edition. First Printing. Includes index. In protective plastic cover, taped to inside covers. Covers the entire history of language, from the first crude murmurings of Neanderthal man thirty thousand years ago to the explosion of English as a global language in this century. We learn why island, freight, and colonel are spelled in such patently unphonetic ways, and why four has a u in it but forty does not. |
The Mother Tongue — English And How It Got That Way |
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