Most Read This Week In Language


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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Intimacies
The Language of Liars
Glyph
Hèhè
Mother Tongue
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
The Colony
The Killing Spell
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Misinterpretation
Wordhunter
The Centre
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
In het kort
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
The Definitions
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
The Naming Song
Home in a Lunchbox
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
Vita mortale e immortale della bambina di Milano
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
Luli and the Language of Tea
Translating Myself and Others
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
A Chest Full of Words
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
Making Love with the Land: Essays
A Glasshouse of Stars
My Broken Language
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
On the Mark: From Periods to Interrobangs, How Punctuation Remade the World
Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Monster Hands
A Mischief of Mice
poyums
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
Żeńska końcówka języka
Scroll
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the Wisdom of What Lies Beneath Us
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
The New Rooster
My Pet Feet
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
Permanent Astonishment
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Rakkaat sanat
Etymologian etymologia ja muita etymologioita (Kirjokansi #370)
The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities
Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word – An Informative and Engaging Look at Language, Women, and Society
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Speaking in Tongues
The Interpreter
The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
Librorum Ridiculorum: A Compendium of Bizarre Books
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
Die Sprache des Kapitalismus
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
العرنجية
Away With Words
The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name
The Words We Share
Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
Short Stories in Russian for Intermediate Learners: Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Russian the fun way! (Readers)
Tree Dogs, Banshee Fingers and Other Irish Words for Nature

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“ Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. ”
― Rumi

Matt Groening
“ I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. ”
― Matt Groening

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