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_qPaperback / softback
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_beng
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050 4 _aPE1072
_bB79 2016
100 1 _aBryson, Bill,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMother tongue :
_bthe story of the English language /
_cBill Bryson.
250 _a[New edition].
264 1 _a[London] :
_bPenguin,
_c2016.
264 4 _c©1990
300 _a269 pages ;
_c20 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aOriginally published in USA by William Morrow and in UK by Hamish Hamilton in 1990.
501 _aP.B
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a'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.
650 0 _aEnglish language
_xEtymology
_95523
650 0 _aEnglish language
_xHistory
_919897
650 7 _aEnglish language
650 7 _aEnglish language
_xEtymology
_95523
655 7 _aHistory.
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