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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
2010, Perennial
in English
- 2010 ed.
1435121686 9781435121683
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
2002, Perennial
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0380715430 9780380715435
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The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way
1990, William Morrow
in English
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0688078958 9780688078959
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Table of Contents
1. The World's Language.
11
2. The Dawn of Language.
21
3. Global Language.
35
4. The First Thousand Years.
46
5. Where Words Come From.
67
6. Pronunciation.
84
7. Varieties of English.
99
8. Spelling.
117
9. Good English and Bad.
134
10. Order Out of Chaos.
147
11. Old World, New World.
161
12. English as a World Language.
179
13. Names.
196
14. Swearing.
214
15. Wordplay.
225
16. The Future of English.
239
Select Bibliography.
247
Index.
257
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