Full name: The Adventure of English: 500AD to 2000: The Biography of a Language

Author: Melvyn Bragg Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781559707848 9781611450071 1559707844 1611450071

English is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years. Melvyn Bragg explores the story of the English language - from its beginnings as a minor Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. Similar books: The Story of English by Robert McCrum Inventing English by Seth Lerer The Stories of English by David Crystal Our Marvelous Native Tongue by Robert Claiborne The Secret Life of Words by Henry Hitchings Blooming English by Kate Burridge The Language Wars by Henry Hitchings Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue by John McWhorter The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh The English Language by David Crystal By Hook or By Crook by David Crystal Globish by Robert McCrum The Fight for English by David Crystal 12 Books That Changed The World by Melvyn Bragg On Giants' Shoulders by Melvyn Bragg Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson