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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way de Bill Bryson

The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

Autor Bill Bryson Stephen McLaughlin
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 14 dec 2015
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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ISBN-13: 9781504715218
ISBN-10: 1504715217
Dimensiuni: 132 x 147 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Harper Collins Publishers

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.