The English Language
Subtitle: A Guided Tour of the Language
Publisher: Penguin Global
Published: September 1, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780141003962
First sentence: In the glorious reign of Queen Elizabeth (the first, that is, from 1558 to 1603), the number of English speakers in the world is thought to have been between five and seven million.