We’re all connected…

Book review:

The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way

by Bill Bryson (b1951)

New York: Harper Perennial, 1990

270 pages

The Mother Tongue is a fascinating collection of details you haven’t dreamed of about the English language. It’s easy enough to skim the parts that you don’t need to read in detail.

If you think that English stands alone as our primary means of communication, think again, and then think again.

We’re all connected by words, and the connections are everywhere.

As it happens, English is the pre-eminent language of the world. Of course, that doesn’t mean that English speakers are pre-eminent, but it does mean that if the little guys ever step out of the spaceship from Mars, it won’t take them long to figure out which language they want to learn first.

There is a really elaborate bibliography if you want to know more.

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Book review: Shakespeare’s Wife

Germaine Greer went overboard a bit…

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