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“A Table of Alphabetical Hard Words”: Our First English Dictionary

The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson

February 7, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Quite a bit has changed since this book was written; language has changed, attitudes towards language have changed, and culture overall has changed. Some pieces from this book have not aged well; it’s rather dismissive of some languages and cultures (weirdly judgmental over Japanese writing, for example) while being aggressively defensive of others. There is also little-to-no attention paid  to the many additions given to English by marginalized communities; I was surprised to come across very little about the contributions of people of color have […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, Anthropology, Bill Bryson, dialect, English, idioms, language, linguistics

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:12 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, Anthropology, Bill Bryson, dialect, English, idioms, language, linguistics ·
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