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Journeys in English | 
 enlarge | Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £15.99
Buy New: £7.94
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 40744
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 1
ISBN: 0563496266
Dewey Decimal Number: 428
EAN: 9780563496267
ASIN: 0563496266
Publication Date: February 2, 2004
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Fun listening - you can hear the difference March 16, 2004
22 out of 28 found this review helpful
This book contains more than you expect. Bill Bryson covers language its self with a focus on English. The book covers speech from a historical view, a physical view, an environmental view, a utilitarian view, and many other views. You will want to play the tape over again as it cruses through many concepts that leave you thinking and speculating how it could have all gone differently.
A highlight for me (aside from his dirty word list) was the recognition that we try to impose Old Latin syntaxes on Modern English and it can get reticules.
My only disappointment comes when he mentions things I have already read and gets it wrong or off the mark.
The advantage of the tape is that you actually hear the pronunciations. When it is a matter of spelling the reader will spell it out for you. Also the reader has the ability to change accents to fit the dialect samples.
The disadvantage is when you want to turn back to a particular page for cross-reference; there is no page to turn. So I would be smart to won both versions.
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