The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/249902 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way Author: Bill Bryson Narrator: Stephen McLaughlin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 45 minutes Release date: December 15, 2015 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.97 of Total 35 Ratings of Narrator: 3.8 of Total 5 Genres: Comedy Publisher's Summary: With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson—the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent—brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.