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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

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How One Ancient Language Went Global...

Laura Spinney

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Words for Life: To Boost Every Day of the Year

Words for Life

To Boost Every Day of the Year

Susie Dent

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A Little Book of Language

A Little Book of Language

David Crystal

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

The Language Puzzle

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Steven Mithen

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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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Life and Language Beyond Earth

Life and Language Beyond Earth

Raymond Hickey (University of Limerick)...

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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins

Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins...

Julia Cresswell

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How Dead Languages Work

How Dead Languages Work

Coulter H. George (Professor of...

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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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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 Adventure Of English: The Biography of a Language

The Adventure Of English

The Biography of a Language

Melvyn Bragg

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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

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Jess Zafarris

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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

Gobsmacked!

The British Invasion of American...

Ben Yagoda

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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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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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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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Amo, Amas, Amat ... and All That: How to Become a Latin Lover

Amo, Amas, Amat ... and All That...

How to Become a Latin Lover

Harry Mount

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

Frequency Dictionary of British...

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Vaclav Brezina

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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

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Sarah Hart

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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

A Brief History of the Exclamation...

Florence Hazrat

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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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