Bye Bye I Love YouBy: Michael Erard A beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last wordsand the many facets of how language begins and endsfrom a pioneering language writer. With our earliest utterances, we announce ourselvesand are recognizedas persons ready for social life. With our final ones, we mark where others must release us to deaths embrace. In Bye Bye I Love You, linguist and author Michael Erard explores these phenomena, commonly called first words