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"[A] fascinating account of developing English." (The Times)

"In The Prodigal Tongue, Mark Abley investigates the deep flux in contemporary English... Attuned to pop culture as well as to scholarship...it stylishly covers a large amount of ground, from Lee Kuan Yew to YouTube, via Spike Lee and Ice Cube... Joyous - a paean to the dynamic energies of English." (Telegraph)

"The Prodigal Tongue takes the reader on an informative and frequently entertaining journey." (Edmonton Journal)

"[A] witty and well-documented treatise on the ways -- some of them alarming -- in which the English language is changing" (Winnipeg Free Press)

"As a poet, journalist, editor, intrepid traveller, scholar and endlessly curious spirit, Abley brings an appropriately eclectic perspective to the subject. ... Writing as an inquisitive, bemused Everyman, Abley leads us on a lively intellectual journey through uncharted territory, his comfort in the zone of ambiguity making him the ideal travel guide" (The Gazette)
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From Ice Cube to You Tube via 'Singlish' and Bouncebackability - Mark Abley travels the globe to report on the dynamic new forces shaping the future of the English language

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  • PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0434013900
  • ISBN 13 9780434013906
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