| 词条 | The Mother Tongue |
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| name = The Mother Tongue | orig title = | translator = | image = The Mother Tongue.jpg | author = Bill Bryson | cover_artist = Tom Curry | country = | language = English | series = | genre = Language | publisher = William Morrow & Company, Inc. | release_date = July 1990 | media_type = Print | pages = 279 | isbn = 0-380-71543-0 | dewey= 420.9 | congress= PE1072 .B76 1990 | oclc= 20934335 | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} The Mother Tongue ({{ISBN|0-380-71543-0}}) is a book by Bill Bryson which compiles the history and origins of the English and the language's various quirks. It is subtitled English And How It Got That Way. The book discusses the Indo-European origins of English, the growing status of English as a global language, the complex etymology of English words, the dialects of English, spelling reform, prescriptive grammar, and more minor topics including swearing. This account popularises the subject and makes it accessible to the lay reader; but Bryson's book has been criticised for some inaccuracies, such as the perpetuation of several urban myths. This book has also been published in Great Britain by Penguin Books under the title Mother Tongue: The English Language ({{ISBN|0-14-014305-X}}). Bryson has since followed up this work with Made in America. External links
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