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The Good the Bad and the Ugly of the English Language
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The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
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3.91 avg rating — 308 ratings
"A brilliant retort to those who think the English language should become set in its ways. "
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
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3.87 avg rating — 106,427 ratings
"With the opinion that English has definite rights and wrongs Truss is firmly in the "Traditionalist" camp. "
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The Stories of English
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A Little Book of Language
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By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey In Search Of English
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Words Words Words
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Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
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Language Death
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The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language
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English as a Global Language
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Language and the Internet
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Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language
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They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases
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Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society
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