{"title": "A Mouthful of Air", "key": "/works/OL261782W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL142238A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "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."}, "lc_classifications": ["PE1072 .B796 1992"], "covers": [10525567, 13548306], "first_publish_date": "1992", "subjects": ["Language and languages", "English language"], "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-24T07:26:31.097043"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-04-09T16:06:24.444573"}}