
Art & Culture: The Rude Story of English by Tom Howell
In author Tom Howell’s opinion, before he got to it, there were two main problems with the officially stated story of the English language. First, because of a development time that stretches over hundreds of years and many countries, there is no central hero. Two, previous histories had been too busy being polite to get down to the nitty gritty essential to doing the story justice. In The Rude Story of English (McClelland & Stewart) […]