The Adventure of English: The Biography of a LanguageArcade Pub., 2003 - Počet stran: 322 "Embracing elements of Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, and Gullah, this 1,500-year story covers a huge range of countries and peoples. The Adventure of English is a narrative not only of power, religion, and trade but also of people and how they have changed - and continue, day by day, to change, along with the extraordinary language that is English."--BOOK JACKET. |
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