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|title=The Story of English

|sort=Story of English, The

|publisher=Michael O'Mara Books

|date=September 2012

|summary=A well-meaning but muddled gallop through the history of the English language.

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''The Story of English'' sets out to be a potted history of the influences that have shaped our language, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to LOLcats.com. Starting with the pre-Roman Celts and their Ogham alphabet, it goes crashing through fifteen hundred years of linguistic history at a terrific pace to end with an almost audible sigh of relief at the internet age.