Dear Mr. Bill Bryson
if you should ever consider English being a concise language, as you do in your book Mother Tongue and damn, e.g., German and it’s jaw-breaking long compound words, then please have a read of this article about oddities in English. You seem to be rather ignorant for someone writing about languages…
Yours sincerely,
FracPete
PS
And now for something completely different: if you ever wanted to spice up your boring everyday life, here’s what to do:
* take some boardshorts that you like and leave them lying around the house for a week
* put them on
* wonder about this tickling sensation down your leg
* look down and find a white tail running down your leg