I agree.  Bryson is fun, but his research and command of the material is a little shaky.  My son used it in an undergrad class and loved it.  He was a little offended when I pointed out some of the problems.

Herb


-----Original Message-----
From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of Johanna Rubba
Sent: Thu 9/14/2006 4:04 PM
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Subject: Re: Textbook for My History of the English Language Course
 
One of Bill Bryson's books was mentioned -- Made in AMerica? or 
something. But I recommend AGAINST his "The Mother Tongue". It's not 
accurate enough. Journalists!

Dr. Johanna Rubba, Associate Professor, Linguistics
Linguistics Minor Advisor
English Department
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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