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.

What Makes This Book Special:

• Origins and Growth: Explore English from its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most-spoken tongue.
• Simplicity and Complexity: Discover how its apparent simplicity hides a deceptive complexity.
• Quirky Features: Dive into its vibrant swearing, uncertain spelling and pronunciation, and the many curious eccentricities that make it both maddening to learn and flexible to use.

Bill Bryson's classic Mother Tongue is a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language.