This is a history of the English language written by Bill Bryson from 1990 and it FEEEEEEELS very 1990 in its tone and scope. For the most part it’s interesting and holds up in a lot of ways. The audiobook version is really nice, especially when it gets to some of the weird pronunciations of Welsh and English place names. So when the audiobook reader is quickly spelling out the placenames I am quickly trying to envision them so when he reads them I can […]