![]() ![]() I wasn’t ready for this book to be funny and I got looked at while running at the gym for spitting out a few giggles. He organized the book well and was able to explain how certain words come to be in a very amusing way. ![]() It’s clear there were a few resources Bryson relied heavily on for certain chapters. ![]() I didn’t have to worry about the different pronunciations Bryson talked about or read them in the phonetic alphabet because the narrator did it for me! A lot of this book talked about the language’s shift from old English to modern English, the words we lost and gained along the way, where words come from, and how they’re preserved or dropped. 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. 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. Other books by Bill Bryson reviewed on this blog: ![]() The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson ![]()
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