Books by Helena Drysdale
Mother Tongues
by Helena Drysdale
This is a travel book with a linguistic thread running through it. It’s written in a really accessible way and it exceeded my expectations
Interviews where books by Helena Drysdale were recommended
The best books on Language, recommended by Henry Hitchings
The wordsmith and cultural historian debunks common myths about English, recommends the smartest writing about words, and says apostrophes are “orthographic squiggles” not worth fighting for.
