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Not only fascinating but extremely funny Angus Deayton The sort of linguistics I like, anecdotal, full of revelations, and with not one dull paragraph -- Ruth Rendell Sunday Times A gold mine of language-anecdote, information, curiosity. A suprise on every page... enthralling Observer Delightful, amusing and provoking... A joyful celebration of our wonderful language, which is packed with curiosities and enlightenment on every page Sunday Express A delightful survey - though with its good humour, wealth of anecdote, and boyish enthusiasm, romp would be a better word. -- David Crystal

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Bill Bryson is the bestselling author of books such as Notes from a Small Island, which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain, and A Short History of Nearly Everything, which won the Royal Society's Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize. His most recent books are At Home: a Short History of Private Life, and One Summer: America 1927. He lives in Norfolk.

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