The Loom of Language
Subtitle: A Guuide to Foreign Languages for the Home Student
By: by Frederick Bodmer, edited and arranged by Lancelot Hogben
Edition: 2nd impression (1996) of 1st paperback edition (1987)
Publisher: The Merlin Press
Published: 1987/1996
Place of publication: London
Number of pages: 690
First sentence: What language we habitually speak depends upon a geographical accident. It has nothing to do with the composition of the human sperm or of the human egg.
Notes: First published (1944) by Allen and Unwin, London
Originally published as one of the Primers for the Age of Plenty along with 'Mathematics for the Million' and 'Science for the Citizen'.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication data:
Bodmer, Frederick
Loom of Language: a guide to foreign languages for the home student.
1. Indo-European Languages
I. title
410 P561
Table of contents: pagenum: 11
class: part
title: Editor's Forword; label: I
pagenum: 15
class: part
title: Introduction; label: II
pagenum: 47
class: part
title: The Story of the Alphabet; title: Accidence - The Table Manners of Language
pagenum: 89
class: part
label: III; title: Syntax - The Traffic Rules of Language
pagenum: 129
class: part
label: IV; title: The Classification of Languages
pagenum: 176
class: part
label: V; label: VI
pagenum: 219
class: part
title: How to Learn the Basic Word List; title: Bird's Eye View of Teutonic Grammar
pagenum: 261
class: part
label: VII; title: The Latin Legacy
pagenum: 309
class: part
label: VIII; title: Modern Descendants of Latin
pagenum: 349
class: part
label: IX; label: X
pagenum: 405
class: part
title: The Diseases of Language; label: XI
pagenum: 443
class: part
title: Pioneers of Language Planning; label: XII
pagenum: 481
class: part
title: Language Planning for a New Order; title: Basic Vocabularies for the Teutonic Languages
pagenum: 516
class: part
label: App. I; label: App. II
pagenum: 577
class: part
title: Basic Vocabularies for the Romance Languages; title: Greek Roots in Common Use for Technical Words of International Currency
pagenum: 636
class: part
label: App. III; pagenum: 660
class: part
title: Index