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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

Proto

How One Ancient Language Went Global...

Laura Spinney

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A Little Book of Language

A Little Book of Language

David Crystal

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Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age

Inventing the Renaissance

Myths of a Golden Age

Ada Palmer

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Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English

Gobsmacked!

The British Invasion of American...

Ben Yagoda

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Nine Nasty Words

Nine Nasty Words

John McWhorter

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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

The Dictionary People

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Sarah Ogilvie

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Fair Dinkum!: Aussie Slang

Fair Dinkum!

Aussie Slang

H.G Nelson

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The Long Journey of English: A Geographical History of the Language

The Long Journey of English

A Geographical History of the Language...

Peter Trudgill (Université de Fribourg,...

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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime

The Wondrous Connections Between...

Sarah Hart

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The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An Exploration of Language, People and Geography

The Atlas of Unusual Languages

An Exploration of Language, People...

Zoran Nikolic

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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins

Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins...

Julia Cresswell

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The Hidden History of Coined Words

The Hidden History of Coined Words...

Ralph Keyes

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The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek

The Cambridge Grammar of Classical...

Evert van Emde Boas

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That's The Way It Crumbles: The American Conquest of the English Language

That's The Way It Crumbles

The American Conquest of the English...

Matthew Engel

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The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary of Things There Should be Words for

The Meaning of Liff

The Original Dictionary of Things...

Douglas Adams

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Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language

Begat

The King James Bible and the English...

David Crystal (University of Wales,...

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Annus Horribilis: Latin for Everyday Life

Annus Horribilis

Latin for Everyday Life

Mark Walker

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Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language

Mother Tongue

The Story of the English Language...

Bill Bryson

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The Origin of Language: How we learned to speak and why

The Origin of Language

How we learned to speak and why...

Madeleine Beekman

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Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology

Words from Hell

Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of...

Jess Zafarris

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The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age

The Language Puzzle

How We Talked Our Way Out of the...

Steven Mithen

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Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages

Rare Tongues

The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages...

Lorna Gibb

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188 Words for Rain: A delightfully damp tour of the British Isles, led by natural forces (an official BBC Weather book)

188 Words for Rain

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Alan Connor

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Australia in 100 Words

Australia in 100 Words

Amanda Laugesen

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The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary

The Dictionary People

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Sarah Ogilvie

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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime

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Sarah Hart

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Nails on a Chalkboard: With Screeching Sound!

Nails on a Chalkboard

With Screeching Sound!

Eavvon O'Neal

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Scarcely English: An A to Z of Assaults On Our Language

Scarcely English

An A to Z of Assaults On Our Language...

Simon Heffer

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Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New

Bina

First Nations Languages, Old and...

Gari Tudor-Smith

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Mother Tongue: The surprising history of women's words -'A gem of a book' (Kate Mosse)

Mother Tongue

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Jenni Nuttall

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Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined Our Language

Hardly Harmless Drudgery

A 500-Year Pictorial History of...

Bryan A. Garner

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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape

Thirty-Two Words for Field

Lost Words of the Irish Landscape...

Manchán Magan

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