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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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Bryson, Bill 1951- (Údar, Verfasser)
Formáid: LEABHAR
Teanga:Teanga Anaithnid nó Neamhbhailí
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: London [u.a.] Penguin Books 1991
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