The mother tongue : English & how it got that way / Bill Bryson.
Offers a journey through the intricacies, puzzles, and quirks of the English language, tracing the history of English from its earliest origins to the present day.
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New York :
Avon Books,
1991.
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Table of Contents:
- The world's language
- The dawn of language
- Global language
- The first thousand years
- Where words come from
- Pronunciation
- Varieties of English
- Spelling
- Good English and bad
- Order out of chaos
- Old world, new world
- English as a world language
- Names
- Swearing
- Wordplay
- The future of English.