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Crystal’s Curiosity Cabinet: An English Language Miscellany

Crystal’s Curiosity Cabinet

An English Language Miscellany

David Crystal

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Spoken English: The Basics

Spoken English

The Basics

Michael McCarthy

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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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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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Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World

Greek To Us

The Fascinating Ancient Greek That...

John Davie

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Australia in 100 Words

Australia in 100 Words

Amanda Laugesen

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The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities

The Language-Lover's Lexipedia

An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities...

Joshua Blackburn

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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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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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Pocket Yorkshire English

Pocket Yorkshire English

Gemini Books

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The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe

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Lexical perplexities and cracking...

Alex Bellos

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

The Meaning of Everything

The Story of the Oxford English...

Simon Winchester

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Quid Pro Quo: What the Romans Really Gave the English Language

Quid Pro Quo

What the Romans Really Gave the...

Peter Jones

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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us

The Secret Life of Pronouns

What Our Words Say About Us

James W. Pennebaker

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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage...

The Classic First Edition

H. W. Fowler

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Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love

Linguaphile

A Life of Language Love

Julie Sedivy

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Introducing English Grammar 4th Ed

Introducing English Grammar 4th...

Kersti Börjars (University of Manchester,...

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The English Language: A Historical Introduction

The English Language

A Historical Introduction

Charles Barber

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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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Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades of Meaning

Dictionary of Fine Distinctions...

Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades...

Eli Burnstein

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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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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

A delightfully damp tour of the...

Alan Connor

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

The Dictionary People

The unsung heroes who created the...

Sarah Ogilvie

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

Frequency Dictionary of British...

Core Vocabulary and Exercises for...

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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