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The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Descriptionary: A Thematic Dictionary
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The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
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The Oxford Guide to Etymology
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Text Structure: A Window into Discourse, Context and Mind
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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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An Exaltation of Larks: The Ultimate Edition
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Misadventures in the English Language
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Translating Happiness: A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being
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Breaking The Bias of English: How English Disempowers Women and How to Fix It In Six Words
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.99 avg rating — 5,304 ratings
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On Cussing: Bad Words and Creative Cursing
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My Grammar and I... Or Should That Be Me?: How to Speak and Write It Right
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Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
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The F-Word
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The Accidental Apostrophe: . . . And Other Misadventures in Punctuation
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They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases
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3.87 avg rating — 317 ratings
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In Other Words : A Language Lover's Guide to the Most Intriguing Words Around the World
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3.64 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
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The Superior Person's Book of Words
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary : Selections from the 1755 Work That Defined the English Language
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Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends
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