Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)Library,Documentation and Information Science Division
“A research journal serves that narrow
borderland which separates the known from the unknown”
-P.C.Mahalanobis
420/.9 Bryson, Bill. The mother tongue : English & how it got that way / Bill Bryson. - New York : Avon Books, 1991, c1990. 270 p. ; 21 cm. Published by arrangement with William Morrow and Company, Inc. Content notes : The world's language -- The dawn of language -- Global language -- The first thousand years -- Where words come from -- Pronunciation -- Varieties of English -- Spelling -- Good English and bad -- Order out of chaos -- Old world, new world -- English as a world language -- Names -- Swearing -- Wordplay -- The future of English. 0380715430 (pbk.) 9780380715435 (pbk.) 0688078958 9780688078959 * English language - History.
