Mother Tongue

Gary Shteyngart has an enjoyable essay in The Threepenny Review called "Mother Tongue," about his attachment to his native Russian and the slow process by which he took up English while living in a house "Russian down to the last buckwheat kernel of kasha."

languagehat.com: MOTHER TONGUE. 2004

Chorus: Ah, look what we've done to the old Mother Tongue

The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2009

In The Last Word, Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue, I'm reminding myself who or what was Humpty Dumpty and whether Mary, Mary Quite Contrary was originally Mary Tudor (with a garden of bells and shells and other torture implements) or Mary Stuart (with an adoring entourage of little maids all in a row).

Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG 2009

In The Last Word, Tales from the Tip of the Mother Tongue, I'm reminding myself who or what was Humpty Dumpty and whether Mary, Mary Quite Contrary was originally Mary Tudor (with a garden of bells and shells and other torture implements) or Mary Stuart (with an adoring entourage of little maids all in a row).

Ben Macintyre's lightly buried treasure 2009

Chorus: Ah, look what we've done to the old Mother Tongue

Archive 2009-04-01 Fred Kiesche 2009

Chorus: Ah, look what we've done to the old Mother Tongue

Silly Slang Song 1997

Blue Eyes and enormous Red Whiskers still gave him somewhat of a Saxon appearance, he had very nearly forgotten his Mother Tongue, and only retained English enough to enable him to mingle a few Billingsgate Oaths with his barbarous Levantine Lingo.

The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861

I have gained from this Original of our Mother Tongue, and that others of my own Sex, might be capable of the same Satisfaction: I resolv'd to give them the Rudiments of that Language in an English Dress.

An apology for the study of northern antiquities Elizabeth Elstob 1719

_ Methinks 'tis very well in our Mother Tongue, Madam.

The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664

Mother Tongue is play about a young painter who finds his life turned upside down by a new loverwith a mysterious past and a mother pursuing a career as a stand-up comedian.

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