Mother tongue the English language

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 hilar...

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Auteur principal:	Bryson, Bill 1951- (Auteur, Verfasser)
Format:	Livre
Langue:	langue indéterminée
Publié:	London [u.a.] Penguin Books 1991
Sujets:	Englisch Geschichte Lehrbuch Sprachverbreitung

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