Mother tongue : the story of the English language /

'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.

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Hoofdauteur: Bryson, Bill (Auteur)
Formaat: Boek
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: [London] : Penguin, 2016.
Editie:[New edition].
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Samenvatting:'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.
Beschrijving item:Originally published in USA by William Morrow and in UK by Hamish Hamilton in 1990.
Fysieke beschrijving:269 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliografie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0141040084
9780141040080