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An edition of The Mother Tongue (1656)

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Perennial
Language
English
Pages
270

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Subjects
English language, History, English language, history, New York Times reviewed, Language, Anglès, Història
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Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
2016, Penguin Books, Limited
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Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
2015, HarperCollins Publishers
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Dec 15, 2015, HarperCollins Publishers and Blackstone Audio
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Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
2010, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
2010, Perennial
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The Mother Tongue: English & How It Got That Way
Jun 26, 2008, Paw Prints 2008-06-26
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Bulaisen zhi Ying yu jian shi
2008, Tian xia yuan jian chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
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Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
2008, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Mother Tongue
2007, Windsor | Paragon
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
2002, Perennial
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Mother Tongue
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MOTHER TONGUE
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The mother tongue
2000, Perennial
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Mother tongue: the English language
2000, BCA
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The Mother Tongue
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1991, Avon Books
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Mother Tongue
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Mother Tongue
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The Mother Tongue
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1990, William Morrow and Company
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1990-01-01, William Morrow
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The Mother Tongue
1990, William Morrow, W. Morrow
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1990, William Morrow
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1990, Hamish Hamilton
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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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PE1072 .B76 1990

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Hardcover
Pagination
270p.
Number of pages
270

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OL25899407M
LCCN
89077521
OCLC/WorldCat
797356082

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