More than 300 million people around the world speak English, and the rest sometimes seem to be trying to do so.
Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so enjoyable. With his unstoppable enthusiasm and restless eye for the peculiar, this is his astonishing guide to the English language. From its mixed roots to its status as the most spoken language in the world.
Its apparent simplicity, deceptive complexity, vibrant richness, and uncertain spelling and pronunciation, Bryson covers all of this as well as the many strange peculiarities that make it equally frustrating to learn and flexible to use. Bill Bryson's classic work, "Mother Tongue," is a particularly delightful and humorous narrative about how English became the global language.
- Pages: 288
- Dimensions: 12.8x12.8cm
Manufacturer
- Author
- Bill Bryson
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Genre
- Linguistics Books
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Publication Date
- 2009
- Dimensions
- 13x20 cm
- Language
- English
- ISBN-13
- 9780141040080
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