Bryson, Bill, <br/><br/>
Mother tongue :  the story of the English language / 
Bill Bryson. 
 - [New edition]. 
 - 269 pages ;  20 cm 
<br/><br/> Originally published in USA by William Morrow and in UK by Hamish Hamilton in 1990. 
<br/><br/>P.B 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> '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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0141040084 9780141040080 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Etymology<br/>English language--History<br/>English language<br/>English language--Etymology
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1072  / B79 2016