TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bryson, Bill
TI  - The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way
SN  - 978-0-380-71543-5
U1  - 420.9 23
PY  - 1990///
CY  - Ne w York
PB  - William Morrow
N1  - 1. The world's language
2. The dawn of language 
3. Global language
4. The first thousand years
5. Where words come from
6. Pronunciation
7. Varieties of English
8. Spelling
9. Good English and bad
10. Order out of chaos
11. Old world, new world
12. English as a world language
13. Names
14. Swearing
15. Wordplay
16. The future of English
ER  -