book cover of A Mouthful of Air
 

A Mouthful of Air

(1992)
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Yeats once wrote of a poem, saying he had "made it out of a mouthful of air." Burgess advances this point by presenting a fascinating survey of language--how it operates, and how it will develop in the future--that ranges from Shakespearean pronunciation to the place of English in the world family of languages.



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