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BOOKS ON TAPE
THE MOTHER TONGUE
By Bill Bryson
(2877) 8 1 Vi -hour cassettes Read by David Case
"More than 350 million people in the J world speak English and the rest, it f sometimes seems, try to." Thus begins Bill Bryson’s engaging jaunt through the quirks and byways of the - world’s most baffling language.
Bryson covers the entire history of language, from the first crude utterings of Neanderthal man to the explosion of English as a global language in this century. We learn why "island," "freight," and "colonel" are spelled ip such unphonetic ways, and why "four" has a "u" in it while "forty" does not. We also discover that Noah Webster occasionally plagiarized and that Samuel Johnson ("Dictionary Johnson"), though no plagiarist, was often careless and inaccurate.
"MOTHER TONGUE is a book that will, like the English language itself, amuse, delight and occasionally astonish you." (Publisher’s Source)
©1990 Bill Bryson.
©1991 Books on Tape, Inc.
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'ENGLISH &
HOW IT GOT THAT WAY
Book Number 2877
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