> Bill Bryon's "The Body" Bill Bryson is not an actual expert on anything but a pop-sci journalist who writes whatever naïve publishers will accept. As a lingu

> Bill Bryon's "The Body" Bill Bryson is not an actual expert on anything but a pop-sci journalist who writes whatever naïve publishers will accept. As a linguist, I was shocked that his book on the history of English (The Mother Tongue) has a factual error or urban legend on virtually every single page, and so I would not trust him about any other subjects either.