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With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly 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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Books by Bill Bryson:
- Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors (2008)
- The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid (2006)
- The Mother Tongue (1991)
- A Walk in the Woods (2007)
- Neither Here Nor There: (1993)
- A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)
- A Really Short History of Nearly Everything (2009)
- The Lost Continent (1990)
- At Home (2011)
- Notes from a Small Island (1997)
- I'm a stranger here myself (1999)
- Notes from a Big Country (1999)
- Made in America (1996)
- Shakespeare (The Illustrated and Updated Edition) (2009)
- In a Sunburned Country (2001)
- Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words (2004)
- One Summer (2014)
- Walk about (2002)
