Bill Bryson: Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language

Name: Bill Bryson: Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
Author: Bryson, Bill
ISBN: 9780141040080

by Bryson, Bill

ISBN: 9780141040080

Published: 2009

English language

The author of the acclaimed The Lost Continent now steers us through the quirks and byways of the English language. We learn why island, freight, and colonel are spelled in such unphonetic ways, why four has a u in it but forty doesn't, plus bizarre and enlightening facts about some of the patriarchs of this peculiar language.

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