Why is this a question? : everything about the origins and oddities of language you never thought to ask /: everything about the origins and oddities of language you never thought to ask. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Paul Anthony Jones.
• Authors: Jones, Paul Anthony
• Contents: Preface -- Introduction: What is the English language? -- What is a word? -- What is a language? -- Where do languages come from? -- Where do words come from? -- What is the hardest language to learn? -- Why do languages have genders? -- Where do our number names come from? -- Why is the alphabet in ABC order? -- Why do we have vowels and consonants? -- Why do we capitalise I? -- Why does i have a dot? -- Why is Q always followed by U? -- Why do we have double letters? -- Does anything rhyme with orange? -- Why do our words go in the order they do? -- How do we read? -- How do we speak? -- How do we understand? -- Why is this a question? -- Why do we use our hands when we talk? -- 14 puzzles: The solutions -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Elliott & Thompson
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 400; Language and languages; Language and languages
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1783966653; 9781783966653
• Related ISBNs: 9781783966646
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