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Mother Tongue

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Penguin Books Ltd. Good. 198mm / 129mm. Paperback. 1991. 288 pages. Cover worn<br>How did English, 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' become the undisputed global language? How did words like shampoo, sofa and rowdy (and others drawn from over fifty languages) find their way into our dictionary? In this revealing and often hilarious book, ... .
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  • Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
  • Date Published 1991

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