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.

Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Bryson, Bill (Awdur)
Fformat: Llyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: [London] : Penguin, 2016.
Rhifyn:[New edition].
Pynciau:
Disgrifiad
Crynodeb:'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.
Disgrifiad o'r Eitem:Originally published in USA by William Morrow and in UK by Hamish Hamilton in 1990.
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:269 pages ; 20 cm
Llyfryddiaeth:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0141040084
9780141040080