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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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Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages

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Lorna Gibb

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

Thirty-Two Words for Field

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Manchán Magan

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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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Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English

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Ben Yagoda

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

Hardly Harmless Drudgery

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Bryan A. Garner

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Nine Nasty Words

Nine Nasty Words

John McWhorter

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Frequency Dictionary of British English: Core Vocabulary and Exercises for Learn

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Vaclav Brezina

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Life and Language Beyond Earth

Life and Language Beyond Earth

Raymond Hickey (University of Limerick)...

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

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Zoran Nikolic

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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

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Janet Holmes (Victoria University...

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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

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Evert van Emde Boas

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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Meaning of Everything

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Simon Winchester

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

That's The Way It Crumbles

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Matthew Engel

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Annus Horribilis: Latin for Everyday Life

Annus Horribilis

Latin for Everyday Life

Mark Walker

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Nails on a Chalkboard: With Screeching Sound!

Nails on a Chalkboard

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Eavvon O'Neal

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

Scarcely English

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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)

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Jenni Nuttall

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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

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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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Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China

Kingdom of Characters

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Jing Tsu

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Index, A History of the

Index, A History of the

Dennis Duncan

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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

The Wordhord

Daily Life in Old English

Hana Videen

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An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!

An Admirable Point

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Florence Hazrat

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