TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bryson,Bill
TI  - Mother tongue: the story of the English language 
SN  - 0141040084
AV  - PE1072 B79 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - [London]
PB  - Penguin
KW  - English language
KW  - Etymology
KW  - History
N1  - Originally published in USA by William Morrow and in UK by Hamish Hamilton in 1990; P.B; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - '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
ER  -