Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, And Dough Don't Rhyme?And Other Oddities Of The English Language

Highly Irregular is an illustrated history of English as told through all the things that are weird about it. Why are there so many silent letters? Why do we have irregular verbs? What is the deal with the word 'colonel'? The weirdness of English can be blamed on specific influences that shaped it, and in this book Arika Okrent investigates the many puzzles of our language to show how English came to be the way it is today.

Author: Arika Okrent

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication Date: July 01, 2021

Number of Pages: 272 pages

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

ISBN-10: 0197539408

ISBN-13: 9780197539408