The English is Coming!: How One Language is Sweeping the World

Through fifty English words used and understood in nearly all corners of the globe, Leslie Dunton-Downer takes readers on an eye-opening journey across culture and commerce, war and peace, and time and space. THE ENGLISH IS COMING shows how we've ended up in a world where English words have become a shared piece of understanding-and therefore a shared piece of humanity. These mini-histories shed new light on familiar vocabulary: the strange turns of fate by which their meanings evolved, and their new roles as the building blocks of the first language ever to forge a global community.