The Mother Tongue - English & How It Got That Way Papercrafts Florence Littauer's lighthearted examination of

Florence Littauer's lighthearted examination of the four temperaments that determine personality will show you how to get along with others

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The Mother Tongue - English & How It Got That Way Papercrafts Florence Littauer's lighthearted examination ofBryson covers the entire history of language, from the first crude murmurings of Neanderthal man thirty thousand years ago to the explosion of English as a global language in this century. We learn why island, freight, and colonel are spelled in such patently unphonetic ways, and four has a u in it but forty does not. A couple of quotes: Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of