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The Mother Tongue: Discusses the early stages of the English language, including Old English and Middle English. A Muse of Fire: Discusses the influence of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible on the English language as well as how Early Modern English took root in the American colonies and its influence on contemporary American English.
John D. Bengtson (1948-2024) was an American historical and anthropological linguist. [1] [2] He had been president and vice-president of the Association for the Study of Language in Prehistory, and had served as editor (or co-editor) of the journal Mother Tongue (1996–2003, 2007–2024). [3]
The Mother Tongue is a 1990 book by Bill Bryson which compiles the history and origins of the English language and its various quirks. [1] It is subtitled English And How It Got That Way .
Writing in The Canberra Times reviewer Marion Halligan noted: "Most of the stories involve European-Australian confrontations, in their countries or ours. But these don't have the relatively simple complexities of Henry James, where the dichotomies of good and bad, positive and negative, vitality and corruption, in old and new societies, are clear enough.
It is a collection of 22 tongue-twisters. It was Dr. Seuss's last beginner book to feature his own illustrations. It was read by Miranda Richardson for HarperCollins along with Scrambled Eggs Super! , Horton Hatches the Egg and The Sneetches and Other Stories .
In Singapore, in pre-schools children learn in two languages: English and a mother tongue: Chinese, Malay or Tamil. [17] The medium of instruction is English in all schools following the national curriculum except in "mother-tongue" subjects. International and private schools may use other languages. See also Special Assistance Plan.
Beginners is the title given to the manuscript version of Raymond Carver's 1981 short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, published with the permission of Carver's widow Tess Gallagher in 2009.