HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Bryson, Bill, author.
Subjects
English language -- History.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Bryson, Bill, author.
by title:
The mother tongue [e...
MARC Display
The mother tongue [electronic resource] : English and how it got that way / Bill Bryson.
by
Bryson, Bill, author.
[New York] : HarperAudio, 2015.
Subjects
English language -- History.
Electronic Resource
http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=4325377A-80C9-4FCD-839A-FD46913102C3
This title is available online; click here to access
Electronic Resource
http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/2396801-TheMotherTongue.mp3
Electronic Resource
http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4325377a-80c9-4fcd-839a-fd46913102c3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
Electronic Resource
http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0293-1/{4325377A-80C9-4FCD-839A-FD46913102C3}Img100.jpg
ISBN:
9780062458537 (electronic audio bk.)
0062458531 (electronic audio bk.)
Description:
1 online resource (1 sound file (10 hr., 44 min., 39 sec.)) : digital
Edition:
Unabridged.
Requests:
0
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.
Copy/Holding information
No Item Information
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.