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Mother Tongue
Mother Tongue
Author: Bill Bryson
How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words like shampoo, sofa and rowdy (and others drawn from over fifty languages) find their way into our dictionary? In this revealing and often hilarious book, Bill Bryson examines the mother tongue and exp...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781405614726
ISBN-10: 1405614722
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Publisher: Clearway Logistics Phase 1a
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