The Prodigal Tongue

Only an American would call autumn fall or refer to a perfectly good pavement as a sidewalk… Not so, says Lynne Murphy. The English invented sidewalk in the seventeenth century and in 1693 John Dryden wrote the line, ‘Or how last fall he raised the weekly bills.’ Perhaps we don’t know our own language quite as well as we thought. Murphy, an American linguist in Britain, dissects the myths surrounding British and American English in a laugh-out-loud exploration of how language works and where it’s going.

Compară ofertele (1)

Ofertele sunt ordonate după preț, de la cel mai mic. Linkurile către magazine pot fi afiliate; comisionul nu schimbă ordinea. Cum ordonăm rezultatele

Momentan o singură ofertă pentru acest produs — adăugăm magazine noi constant.