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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way

 
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The author of the acclaimed The Lost Continent now steers us through the quirks and byways of the English language. We learn why island, freight, and colonel are spelled in such unphonetic ways, why four has a u in it but forty doesn't, plus bizarre and enlightening facts about some of the patriarchs of this peculiar language.

BBC R4 - Bill Bryson's 'Mother Tongue'
Presented by Bill Bryson
Broadcast December 13, 1997 to January 17, 1998
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

A history of the English language.

Part 1 of 6 - The Angles And Saxons Have Landed.
Part 2 of 6 - From The Wife Of Bath To The Merry Wives Of Windsor.
Part 3 of 6 - Bringing Order To A Disorderly Language.
Part 4 of 6 - Riddle Me This.
Part 5 of 6 - Struggling With Phrasal Verbs.
Part 6 of 6 - Estuary English Rules Ok? MediaInfoGeneral

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File size : 25.4 MiB
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Album : BBC Radio 4
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Performer : Bill Bryson
Genre : Wireless
Recorded date : 1997
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Comment : Broadcast December 1997-January 1998

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