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An edition of A Mouthful of Air (1992)

A mouthful of air

language and languages, especially English

1st Canadian ed.

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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.

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A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially English
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A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English
1993, Stoddart Publishing Co., Ltd, Canada
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1993, William Morrow & Co
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A mouthful of air: language and languages, especially English
1992, Stoddart
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1992, Hutchinson
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x, 347 p. ;
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