Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson lighting engaging and expertly researched

engaging and expertly researched

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–lies in the half-finished illuminations themselves

Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson lighting engaging and expertly researchedHow 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 dictionary? In this revealing and often hilarious book, Bill Bryson examines the mother tongue and explores the countless varieties of English and the perils of marketing brands with names like Pschitt and