On Tuesday, 20 November 2018 15:34:29 AEDT JLWhitaker wrote: > I'm reading a Bill Bryson book that is fantastic, called Made In America: An > Informal History of the English Language In the United States.
I have another excellent Bill Bryson book about the history and development of English as a world language (with a chapter on its future) titled "Mother Tongue". The blurb on the back cover begins: "In this hymn to the mother tongue Bill Bryson examines how a language 'treated for centuries as the inadequate and second-rate tongue of peasants' has now become the undisputed global language (more people learn English in China than live in the USA)." I believe it was a U.S. President who instituted reform of American spellings in the early 20th century. DL _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
