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A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

A Place For Everything

The Curious History of Alphabetical...

Judith Flanders

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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter - Then, Now, and Forever

Nine Nasty Words

English in the Gutter - Then, Now,...

John McWhorter

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I Saw the Dog: How Language Works

I Saw the Dog

How Language Works

Alexandra Aikhenvald

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The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk

The Dawn of Language

The story of how we came to talk...

Sverker Johansson

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Hyphens & Hashtags*: *The Stories behind the symbols on our keyboard

Hyphens & Hashtags*

*The Stories behind the symbols...

Claire Cock-Starkey

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More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary

More Than Words

The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary...

Pat Manser

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The Hidden History of Coined Words

The Hidden History of Coined Words...

Ralph Keyes

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This Is the Voice

This Is the Voice

John Colapinto

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The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical Complexities and Cracking Conundrums from Across the Globe

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Alex Bellos

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The Universal Translator: Everything you need to know about 139 languages that don't really exist

The Universal Translator

Everything you need to know about...

Yens Wahlgren

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A Word for Every Day of the Year

A Word for Every Day of the Year...

Steven Poole

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Word for Today

Word for Today

Roly Sussex

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The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries

The Cambridge Companion to English...

Sarah Ogilvie

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Just the Job: How Trades got their Names

Just the Job

How Trades got their Names

Alexander Tulloch

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Macquarie Concise Dictionary Eighth Edition

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Macquarie Dictionary

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Questions About Language: What Everyone Should Know About Language in the 21st Century

Questions About Language

What Everyone Should Know About...

Laurie Bauer

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Macquarie Concise Dictionary Eighth Edition

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Macquarie Dictionary

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Let's Talk: How English Conversation Works

Let's Talk

How English Conversation Works

David Crystal

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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

Greek to Me

Adventures of the Comma Queen

Mary Norris

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Macquarie Australian Dictionary: Eighth Edition

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Eighth Edition

Macquarie Dictionary

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Pedantic: A hilarious and useful guide to the 100 terms smart people should know

Pedantic

A hilarious and useful guide to...

Ross Petras

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Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them

Thinking Inside the Box

Adventures with Crosswords and the...

Adrienne Raphel

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You Talkin' To Me?: The Unruly History of New York English

You Talkin' To Me?

The Unruly History of New York English...

White

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Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing

Because Internet

Understanding how language is changing...

Gretchen McCulloch

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How Dead Languages Work

How Dead Languages Work

Coulter H. George (Professor of...

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Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language

Long Live Latin

The Pleasures of a Useless Language...

Nicola Gardini

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Don't Believe A Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

Don't Believe A Word

The Surprising Truth About Language...

David Shariatmadari

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Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language

Bagels, Bumf, and Buses

A Day in the Life of the English...

Simon Horobin

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Signs of Civilisation: How punctuation changed history

Signs of Civilisation

How punctuation changed history...

Bard Borch Michalsen

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The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, ultracrepidarian and other surprisingly useful terms worth resurrecting

The Little Book of Lost Words

Collywobbles, ultracrepidarian and...

Joe Gillard

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Now You're Talking: Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence

Now You're Talking

Human Conversation from the Neanderthals...

Trevor Cox

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Australia's Original Languages: An Introduction

Australia's Original Languages

An Introduction

R. M. W. Dixon

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