The Miracle of Language Author:Charlton Laird Copyright 1953 — Adventure with Words — All the marvel and wonder of our language is here revealed with such color and wit that a subject usually treated with poker-faced pedantry reads like a novel of adventure. — Charlton Laird, scholar, linguist, novelist, traces language from its grunting, cave-man origins, explores its strange developments, an... more »d describes with vivid drama its effect on civiliation...« less