Word Nerd


Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Dictionary of Lost Words
The Elements of Style
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark