The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
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The Mother Tongue
English and How It Got That Way

Author: Bill Bryson

Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Harper Audio

Published: 12/15/2015


Synopsis

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.

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