By DWIGHT GARNER, The New York Times, May 25, 2010
Review of the book "GLOBISH, how the English Language Became the World’s Language", by Robert McCrum, 331 pages. W. W. Norton & Company
I don’t own a Kindle or a Nook or an iPad or a Sony Reader, and haven’t hankered for any of them. (Well, all right, I wouldn’t kick an iPad out of bed.) But there’s something about Robert McCrum’s new book, “Globish,” that made me yearn to click through rather than turn its pages. Read more...
Review of the book "GLOBISH, how the English Language Became the World’s Language", by Robert McCrum, 331 pages. W. W. Norton & Company
I don’t own a Kindle or a Nook or an iPad or a Sony Reader, and haven’t hankered for any of them. (Well, all right, I wouldn’t kick an iPad out of bed.) But there’s something about Robert McCrum’s new book, “Globish,” that made me yearn to click through rather than turn its pages. Read more...