Mother Tongue : The Story of the English Language (9780141040080)

'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...'

Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation, Bryson covers all this as well as the many curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn as it is flexible to use.

Bill Bryson's classic Mother Tongue is a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 288 pages
• Dimensions 133 x 199 x 19mm | 204g
• Publication date 01 Oct 2009
• Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement reiss.
• ISBN10 0141040084
• ISBN13 9780141040080
• Bestsellers rank 2,476

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