The Mother Tongue
Subtitle: English & How It Got That Way
By: Bill Bryson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: English language -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-255) and index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: The World's Language
pagenum: 11; label: 2
title: The Dawn of Language
pagenum: 21; label: 3
title: Global Language
pagenum: 35; label: 4
title: The First Thousand Years
pagenum: 46; label: 5
title: Where Words Come From
pagenum: 67; label: 6
title: Pronunciation
pagenum: 84; label: 7
title: Varieties of English
pagenum: 99; label: 8
title: Spelling
pagenum: 117; label: 9
title: Good English and Bad
pagenum: 134; label: 10
title: Order Out of Chaos
pagenum: 147; label: 11
title: Old World, New World
pagenum: 161; label: 12
title: English as a World Language
pagenum: 179; label: 13
title: Names
pagenum: 196; label: 14
title: Swearing
pagenum: 214; label: 15
title: Wordplay
pagenum: 225; label: 16
title: The Future of English
pagenum: 239; title: Select Bibliography
pagenum: 247; title: Index
pagenum: 257