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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language Melvin Bragg
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language Melvin Bragg
London: Hodder and Stoughton 2003
Not a book for the academic scholar of English, but one which nevertheless might well be read with pleasure by such. Packed full of titillating information, The Adventure of English traces the history of the vocabulary of that West German language which is today the preeminent lingua franca for humanity. The book's prime attraction is the wide information it gives on the origin of the most common words we all use in everyday speech, and the fact that it sets these in the context of the unfolding history of the English people. Indeed, it may be regarded as much as a colorful …
