Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson #literature with a hefty medical slant

with a hefty medical slant

and celestial facts

better connected

Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland

the little girls are whisked away on a magic Christmas carpet ride

Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson #literature with a hefty medical slant'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to'Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English. From its mongrel origins to its status as the world's most spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling