Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language

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The author of the acclaimed The Lost Continent now steers us through the quirks and byways of the English language. We learn why island, freight, and colonel are spelled in such unphonetic ways, why four has a u in it but forty doesn't, plus bizarre and enlightening facts about some of the patriarchs of this peculiar language.

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  Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation

  • 2023-03-02
  • 467 pages
  • Ebook
  • HarperCollins UK
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  Mother Tongue: An American Life in Italy

  • 2020-03-17
  • 376 pages
  • Ebook
  • North Point Press
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  Mother Tongue

  • 2019-08-13
  • 304 pages
  • Ebook
  • Candlewick Press
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  Mother Tongue: A Saga of Three Generations of Balkan Women

  • 2018-03-01
  • 267 pages
  • Ebook
  • Travelers' Tales

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