TY - BOOK AU - Bryson,Bill TI - The mother tongue: English and how it got that way SN - 0888078958 : U1 - 420.9 PY - 1990/// CY - New York PB - William Morrow KW - English language KW - History KW - Grammar, Comparative and general N1 - Entire history of language from Neander that man to explosion of english as a global language; Includes index; Bibliography: p. [247] -255 ER -