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The Dictionary of Lost Words
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition
Intimacies
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Misinterpretation
The Centre
Sprache und Sein
Meter i sekundet
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
Wordhunter
Hèhè
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
The Colony
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Toward Eternity
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
1001 Dark Nights: The Dandelion Diary (Maysen Jar #2.5)
A Gallery of Rogues (The Swifts #2)
poyums
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
The Liar's Dictionary
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
The Interpreter
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
Home in a Lunchbox
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Stacey’s Extraordinary Words (The Stacey Stories)
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
Japan in honderd kleine stukjes
My Broken Language
Głusza
Speaking in Tongues
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
No Reading Allowed: The WORST Read-Aloud Book Ever
Żeńska końcówka języka
The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
A Chest Full of Words
¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
Suppose a Sentence
Borges and Me
What the Taliban Told Me
Monster Hands
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say -- and What You Don't
Short Stories in German for Intermediate Learners
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Otto: A Palindrama
Translating Myself and Others
The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor: Critical Thinking in the Age of Bias, Contested Truth, and Disinformation
Becoming a Writer, Staying a Writer: The Artistry, Joy, and Career of Storytelling
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
العرنجية
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
Fifty Words for Snow
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name
Anatomy of Genres
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
Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History On Where They Come From!
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
Little Bird Laila
The Naming Song
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
The New Rooster
Permanent Astonishment
Away With Words
Fifty Sounds
Fake Chinese Sounds

Stephen Fry
Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it's the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from an old bookshelf a forgotten volume of erotic diaries; language is the faint scent of urine on a pair of boxer shorts, it's a half-remembered childhood birthday party, a creak on the sta ...more
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David Levithan
i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice to say 'bad-bye' or 'awful-bye' or 'couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye.' every time you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. well, i don't believe in that. i believe against that. ...more
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