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

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Bill Bryson with Stephen McLaughlin

10 hours, 45 minutes first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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How 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 di...

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