solitude sunday

solitude sunday at the whimsey project.  our day to spend time with a book.  

my time with bill bryson's, the mother tongue; english and how it lot that way, continued with chapters nine, ten and eleven. these chapters explained how english became even more standardized with the advent of dictionaries. the spellings of words have come and gone and come again.  the most interesting fact in these chapters was the british wanted nothing to do with any american english words after the revolutionary war. there was even a push to banish words that had originated in britian that some thought were purely american words.

 tidbits worth considering:

*the nine most used english words:  and, be, have, it, of, the, to, will and you.

*the discussion of OK was given three pages of the book! that's how important that small word is. it is now a universal word, used in just about every language spoken around the world.

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