Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: William Morrow
Publication date: 1990
Number of pages: 270
Format / Quality: PDF, MP3
Size: 153 MB
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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