Title: A Mouthful of Air
First published: 1992
Description: Yeats once wrote of a poem, saying he had made it out of a mouthful of air. Burgess advances this point by presenting a fascinating survey of language--how it operates, and how it will develop in the future--that ranges from Shakespearean pronunciation to the place of English in the world family of languages.
Subjects: Language and languages, English language
LC classification: PE1072 .B796 1992