The Story of English
Subtitle: Third Revised Edition
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: December 31, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780142002315
First sentence: Twenty years ago, when I was working with William Cran and Robert MacNeil on the research and development stage of the television series that, initially, accompanied the book, not one of us suspected that the linguistic phenomenon were analysing - global English - was on the brink of becoming a worldwide sensation.