The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way Audiobook (Free)

With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Costs Bryson-the acclaimed writer of The Lost Continent-brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun from the English language. Through the first descent from the larynx in to the neck (why you can talk but your dog can’t), to the fine lost artwork of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an insufficient, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into among the world’s largest growth industries.