{"product_id":"mother-tongue-by-bill-bryson-9780141040080","title":"Mother Tongue","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fresh new look for Bill Bryson's two exceptional classics on the English language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMother Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e explores the quirky and fascinating journey of the English language, spoken by more than 300 million people worldwide, with many more attempting to master it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOnly Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this astonishing tour of English covers everything 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 and pronunciation. Bryson delves into the curious eccentricities that make English as maddening to learn as it is flexible to use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBill Bryson's classic \u003cem\u003eMother Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world's language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46254786380012,"sku":"9780141040080","price":27.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780141040080.jpg?v=1741666673","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/mother-tongue-by-bill-bryson-9780141040080","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}