Various Digital Retailers have
The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way (eBook) by Bill Bryson on sale for
$1.99.
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About this book:
- Page Length: 274
- Bill Bryson is the New York Times bestselling author of At Home, A Walk in the Woods, The Lost Continent, Made in America, The Mother Tongue, A Short History of Nearly Everything.
- Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language.
- From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.
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Still worth the $2 I paid during a previous deal, just on the lower end of the spectrum of his books for me.