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Mother Tongue: Popular Penguins Classical history / classical civilisation Weeks from Christmas in theBill Bryson's Mother Tongue is a hymn to the English language. In examining how a second rate, mongrel tongue came to be the undisputed language of the globe. Bryson explores English from America to Australia and looks at, among other things, swearing, spelling, spoonerisms and Scrabble. No self respecting English speaker should open his mouth without reading it.