![]() ![]() Well, maybe you’ve never ever wanted to take a linguistics course. I’d been hoping to learn more about English. To give you a little backstory, when I was in college at Auburn, the English department offered a course entitled “History of the English Language.” To most people that sounds incredibly boring, but by the time I graduated, I was sincerely disappointed that they never offered the course while I was there. Well, I’m back with another of his books to share, and this one was right up my alley as an English teacher. I’ve written about Bryson on the blog before–I reviewed his One Summer and his two books on British travel, as well as mentioning his hilarious book A Walk in the Woods this past summer. ![]() One of the last books I read in 2016 was The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson. ![]()
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