The Resource The Mother Tongue
The Mother Tongue
Resource Information
The item The Mother Tongue represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Merrimack Valley Library Consortium.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The Mother Tongue represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Merrimack Valley Library Consortium.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." —Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries
- Isbn
- 9780062417442
- Label
- The Mother Tongue
- Title
- The Mother Tongue
- Summary
- "Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." —Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries
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- Bryson, Bill
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- Humor (Nonfiction)
- Language Arts
- Nonfiction
- Essays
- Label
- The Mother Tongue
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:290b68dc-77df-4cf3-8a31-45008eef9b71
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9780062417442
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- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
- Label
- The Mother Tongue
- Control code
- OVERDRIVE:290b68dc-77df-4cf3-8a31-45008eef9b71
- Dimensions
- 4 3/4 in. or 12 cm.
- Form of item
- electronic
- http://library.link/vocab/inputERC
- True
- Isbn
- 9780062417442
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Specific material designation
- optical disk
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