Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship : An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2012) Frank - no ordinary sixteen-year-old

Frank - no ordinary sixteen-year-old - lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village

his overall conception of political science

and the dazzling creations of pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moskowitz

well-behaved member of your household

Represents Nietzsche's attempt to sum up his philosophy

Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship : An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2012) Frank - no ordinary sixteen-year-oldWhy does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why is Chaucer's English of the fourteenth century so different from Modern English of the late twentieth century that the two are essentially different languages? Why are Americans and English 'one people divided by a common language'? And how can the language of Chaucer and Modern English or Modern British and American English still be