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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التنسيق: | كتاب |
اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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[London] :
Penguin,
2016.
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الطبعة: | [New edition]. |
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الملخص: | '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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وصف المادة: | Originally published in USA by William Morrow and in UK by Hamish Hamilton in 1990. |
وصف مادي: | 269 pages ; 20 cm |
بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ردمك: | 0141040084 9780141040080 |