Our Marvelous Native Tongue by Robert Claiborne

Our Marvelous Native Tongue

Robert Claiborne

339 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction history informative lighthearted slow-paced
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Traces the history of the English language, starting several hundred thousand years ago with the Indo-Europeans. Robert Claiborne then continues with the Anglo-Saxon invaders of England whose language developed into Old English, which in turn slow...

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