'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 mongre
The Story of No-Tongue
β Scribed by George F. Will
- Book ID
- 123881394
- Publisher
- The American Folklore Society
- Year
- 1916
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 663 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8715
- DOI
- 10.2307/534682
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