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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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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 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 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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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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Pocket Yorkshire English

Pocket Yorkshire English

Gemini Books

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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

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

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Sarah Hart

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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

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Bryan A. Garner

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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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Nine Nasty Words

Nine Nasty Words

John McWhorter

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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...

Core Vocabulary and Exercises for...

Vaclav Brezina

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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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Life and Language Beyond Earth

Life and Language Beyond Earth

Raymond Hickey (University of Limerick)...

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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 Introduction to Sociolinguistics

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics...

Janet Holmes (Victoria University...

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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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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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The Hidden History of Coined Words

The Hidden History of Coined Words...

Ralph Keyes

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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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Australia's Original Languages: An Introduction

Australia's Original Languages

An Introduction

R. M. W. Dixon

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