PEI, Mario. - The Story of English: The Past, the Present, the Future.

London, Georg Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1953. 8vo. 381pp. index and word list. In original printed dust-wrapper. A very good copy, tight and clean, in very good unclipped dust-wrapper. A little usual foxing to dust-wrapper and endpapers. ?Appears unused. Classic work by Italian-born American linguist whose many works helped to provide the general public with a popular understanding of linguistics and philology. Over the years he became fluent in five languages, capable of speaking some 30 others, and acquainted with the structure of at least 100 of the world's spoken languages.

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