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Did the audible version, read by the author. This guy reads his own work as well as Neil Gaiman does. The story is both utterly fascinating and impressively boring, as he goes over points of grammar and word usage to argue that the generally accepted ideas about how English evolved just don't hold water in the light of new evidence (some of it genetic) which forces us to look again and consider other options... such as welsh and celtic which tend to be neglected because none of the academics stu
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