Hannah’s Reviews > The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way > Status Update

This book is full of nuggets of curious thought-provoking information on how the English language came to be, which I wish I had the memory to retain. This has to be one of my favourites: "the word roundabout... is of American origin... before Smith came along, traffic circles in Britain were called gyratory circles." Oh, to reprogram my SatNav to say, "go right at the gyratory circus, third exit".