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The Mother Tongue - English & How It Got That Way Papercrafts fresh ideas for preparing mouth-wateringBryson covers the entire history of language, from the first crude murmurings of Neanderthal man thirty thousand years ago to the explosion of English as a global language in this century. We learn why island, freight, and colonel are spelled in such patently unphonetic ways, and four has a u in it but forty does not. A couple of quotes: Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of