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The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
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Mark Forsyth (Goodreads Author)
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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
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Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
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Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language
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Daniel Tammet (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 781 ratings
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The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
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Steven Pinker (Goodreads Author)
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Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World
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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
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The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
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Mark Forsyth (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 2,513 ratings
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Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks
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Keith Houston (Goodreads Author)
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Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a Not So Dead Language
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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Melissa Mohr (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 2,291 ratings
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Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling
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The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
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Julie Barlow (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 1,755 ratings
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