A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages-- Especially English by Anthony Burgess

A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages-- Especially English

Anthony Burgess

416 pages hardcover 1992

6 editions

nonfiction philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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Yeats once wrote of a poem, saying he had made it out of a mouthful of air. Burgess advances this point by presenting a fascinating survey of language--how it operates, and how it will develop in the future--that ranges from Shakespearean pronunci...

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