It was followed by Neither Here Nor There, an account of his first trip around Europe. In The Lost Continent, Bill Bryson’s hilarious first travel book, he chronicled a trip in his mother’s Chevy around small town America.
He and his family then moved to New Hampshire in America for a few years, but they have now returned to live in the UK. He lived for many years with his English wife and four children in North Yorkshire.
He settled in England in 1977, and worked in journalism until he became a full time writer. "Complex and maddeningly illogical though it is, English is spoken by more than 300 million people around the world.Its story has been told before, but seldom as deftly or as memorably.An enthralling excursion.A motherlode of delectable trivia."-Burt Hochburg, "The New York Times Book Review""Diverting and richly anecdotal.Bryson is an unalloyed fan who relishes the language's versatility, verb hoard and vast vocabulary."-Robert Taylor, "Boston Globe""Vastly informative and vastly entertaining.A scholarly and fascinating book."-Fred S.William McGuire “Bill” Bryson, OBE, FRS was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson-the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent-brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language.įrom the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries. "Vastly informative and vastly entertaining.A scholarly and fascinating book." - Los Angeles Times 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. About the Book The author of the acclaimed The Lost Continent now steers us through the quirks and byways of the English language.
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