Global Mother Tongue: The Eight Flavours of English

by Howard Richler

"The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use."

--Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe

For centuries, the English language has been raiding other languages for words. It has accumulated the largest vocabulary in the world, with only 30% of its words deriving from the original Anglo-Saxon word stock. English, in all of its unique forms and permutations, is spoken by 1.6 billion people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155065215X
• ISBN13: 9781550652154
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Vehicule Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"