The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World by Philip Gooden

The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World

Philip Gooden

224 pages first pub 2009 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging as modern English from the late Middle Ages, the English langua...

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