{"id":331,"date":"2025-01-20T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/?p=331"},"modified":"2025-01-20T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T02:13:10","slug":"tome-tome-again-podcast-the-mother-tongue-by-bill-bryson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/tome-tome-again-podcast-the-mother-tongue-by-bill-bryson\/","title":{"rendered":"Tome &amp; Tome Again Podcast: The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In episode 7 we discuss Bill Bryson&#8217;s <em>Mother Tongue<\/em>, a humorous non-fiction romp through the English language and how it got that way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his astonishing tour of English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From its mongrel origins to its status as the world&#8217;s most-spoken tongue; its apparent simplicity to its deceptive complexity; its vibrant swearing to its uncertain spelling and pronunciation; Bryson covers all this as well as the many curious eccentricities that make it as maddening to learn as it is flexible to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill Bryson&#8217;s classic Mother Tongue is a highly readable and hilarious tale of how English came to be the world&#8217;s language.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Find the episode here:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe title=\"Mother Tongue\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);height:150px;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=rwqpn-17557c5-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1b1b1b&#038;font-color=auto&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=7\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In episode 7 we discuss Bill Bryson&#8217;s Mother Tongue, a humorous non-fiction romp through the English language and how it got that way! Only Bill &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,308],"tags":[313,348,325,310,349,350,318,311,309,312,347,316,317],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-tome-tome-again-podcast","tag-apple-podcasts","tag-bill-bryson","tag-book-discussion","tag-books","tag-etymology","tag-history","tag-jess-gately","tag-podbean","tag-podcast","tag-spotify","tag-the-mother-tongue","tag-tome-and-tome-again","tag-tota","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddfeather.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}