Reader recommendation: The Mother Tongue

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.

I have yet to read a Bill Bryson book that didn't make me laugh and learn. But, as a lover of language, I found Bryson's The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way to be especially enjoyable and enlightening.

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