The Mother Tongue

Author: Bill Bryson
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Binding: Audio Cassette
ISBN: 0736620699

The Mother Tongue

"More than 350 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to. Download The Mother Tongue from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 in 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 Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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