Abley, Mark

The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English

Houghton Mifflin Company:
New York: 2008
First edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket,
262 pp
Cover artwork by: Kelly Hill

Language. The future of language. How it changes. Who and what circumstances make for change. The wild, wacky, and sometimes baffling road of the English language and its astonishing evolution is the subject of this evocative and thoughtful, yet always lively, book for anyone who cherishes the words they use. How language is irrevocably changing the people of the world in far-reaching ways.   #39062