The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Book Name: The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Year: 2015
Pages: 274
Language: English
File size: 918 KB
File format: PDF

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way Pdf Book Description:

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson–the acclaimed writer of The Lost Continent–brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. In the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can not ), to the fine lost art of swearing.

Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an insufficient, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world’s biggest growth industries.