The mother tongue
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
Table of contents: label: 1. The World's Language
title: 11; label: 2. The Dawn of Language
title: 21; label: 3. Global Language
title: 35; label: 4. The First Thousand Years
title: 46; label: 5. Where Words Come From
title: 67; label: 6. Pronunciation
title: 84; label: 7. Varieties of English
title: 99; label: 8. Spelling
title: 117; label: 9. Good English and Bad
title: 134; label: 10. Order Out of Chaos
title: 147; label: 11. Old World, New World
title: 161; label: 12. English as a World Language
title: 179; label: 13. Names
title: 196; label: 14. Swearing
title: 214; label: 15. Wordplay
title: 225; label: 16. The Future of English
title: 239; label: Select Bibliography
title: 247; label: Index
title: 257