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May We Borrow Your Language? by Philip Gooden

May We Borrow Your Language?

Philip Gooden

224 pages first pub 2016 (view editions)

nonfiction funny informative reflective slow-paced
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The English language that is spoken by one billion people around the world is a linguistic mongrel, its vocabulary a diverse mix resulting from centuries of borrowing from other tongues. From the Celtic languages of pre-Roman Britain to Norman Fre...

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