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Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language de Bill Bryson

Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language

Autor Bill Bryson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2009
'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. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation, Bryson covers all this as well as the many curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn as it is flexible to use.

Bill Bryson's classicMother Tongueis a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language.
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ISBN-13: 9780141040080
ISBN-10: 0141040084
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 133 x 199 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up there, but has spent most of his adult life in Britain. He has worked for a number of newspapers, includingThe Timesand theIndependent.His books on the English language includeMother TongueandTroublesome Words, both published by Penguin.

Bill Bryson is the author of several bestsellers includingThe Lost Continent, Neither Here Nor There, Notes from a Small Island, A Walk in the Woods, Notes from a Big Country, Down Under, A Short History of Nearly Everything, One Summer:America 1927and his memoir,The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid. His most recent bestseller isThe Road to Little Dribbling.

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Not only fascinating but extremely funny
The sort of linguistics I like, anecdotal, full of revelations, and with not one dull paragraph
A gold mine of language-anecdote, information, curiosity. A suprise on every page... enthralling
Delightful, amusing and provoking... A joyful celebration of our wonderful language, which is packed with curiosities and enlightenment on every page
A delightful survey - though with its good humour, wealth of anecdote, and boyish enthusiasm, "romp" would be a better word.

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With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.

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“Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles Times
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. 
From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world’s largest growth industries.