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I am not a linguist, but I do like words and to understand their nuances. I took a year of Latin in high school because it would supposedly help me figure out what words meant and be useful in science, which it has to some degree. So I thought this book might be of interest. In short, it was of interest although not at all what I thought it would be about. McWhorter has some thoughts about how English became so much more simplified than other Proto-Germanic languages, such as German and Swedish. And, as he explains, his thoughts are not widely agreed with by those who study the development of English as a language. To me, his thoughts were logical and rational, i.e., they made sense. The thought that I had after reading this book was what an extraordinarily difficult job it must be to translate literature and poetry to English or from English to another language. If for no other than that insight, the book was worth reading.

I read this in audio. It was narrated by the author. He was a bit flamboyant at times but I doubt students would fall asleep if he were their professor.