Globish: How the English Became the World's Language (Paperback) by Robert McCrum

from IsaacPearson

This book is titled "Globish: how the English Language Became the World's Language," and the author seems to focus on the "how" part of the title and not as much on English itself. I personally happen to like reading about history, so I enjoyed this book as a tour of Anglo-American history with a...

from robeik

A journey through the history of the English language, how world history played its part in the development of English, and even how English played its part in history. A bit long winded and divergent at times, but still worth reading. Other reviewers (here and elsewhere) have noted errors: I hav...

from PDCRead

I like books about the development of language, and was hoping for good things from this book. But it didn't fully live up to those expectations. The book is split into several sections, and the first is about the co evolution of the English language and the people of this country. He writes abou...

from janglen

I enjoyed this book. It combines a readable and entertaining introduction to the development of the English language, with a broad history of the English-speaking world. I found it full of fascinating detail and was interested in the "Globish" concept that the language has released itself from it...

from ralphz

How did a tiny island, beset by wave after wave of conquerors, become the dominant power of one century, and then one of its colonies become the dominant power of another? Language. Globish explores how English became English, how it spread, and how American English took over the world. The autho...