Mother tongue : the story of the English language / Bill Bryson.
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TextPublisher: [London] : Penguin, 2016Copyright date: ©1990Edition: [New edition]Description: 269 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 0141040084
- 9780141040080
- PE1072 B79 2016
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Originally published in USA by William Morrow and in UK by Hamish Hamilton in 1990.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...' Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English.
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