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Trainspotting Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 180,414 ratings — published 1993
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Their Eyes Were Watching God Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 389,191 ratings — published 1937
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Blood Red Road (Dust Lands #1) Blood Red Road (Dust Lands #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 62,292 ratings — published 2011
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The Color Purple The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 756,349 ratings — published 1982
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,340,801 ratings — published 1885
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The Sound and the Fury The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 196,962 ratings — published 1929
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Rebel Heart (Dust Lands, #2) Rebel Heart (Dust Lands, #2)
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avg rating 3.87 — 20,033 ratings — published 2012
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Foreign Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors, and Writers Foreign Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors, and Writers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 26 ratings — published 1979
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Boo Stew Boo Stew (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 459 ratings — published 2021
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The Young Team The Young Team (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 4,339 ratings — published 2020
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The dialects of England The dialects of England (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 44 ratings — published 1990
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Cold Comfort Farm Cold Comfort Farm (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 55,298 ratings — published 1932
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Jump Back, Paul: The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Jump Back, Paul: The Life and Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 123 ratings — published 2015
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 204,693 ratings — published 2008
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The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2) The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
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avg rating 4.18 — 102,248 ratings — published 2009
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Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3) Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
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avg rating 4.22 — 90,835 ratings — published 2010
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.98 — 494,382 ratings — published 1987
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Push Push (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 59,417 ratings — published 1996
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American Dialects American Dialects (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 21 ratings — published 1959
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I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.26 — 324 ratings — published 2009
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Die Sprache der Salamander: Lieder 1971-1981 (German Edition) Die Sprache der Salamander: Lieder 1971-1981 (German Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
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Ich bin so frei Ich bin so frei (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.00 — 2 ratings — published
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Wortknall Wortknall (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published
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The Treasure Seekers The Treasure Seekers (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
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acht schtumpfo züri empfernt: Novelle (edition spoken script) acht schtumpfo züri empfernt: Novelle (edition spoken script)
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avg rating 4.26 — 19 ratings — published
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The Good Son The Good Son (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 819 ratings — published 2015
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NBC Handbook of Pronunciation NBC Handbook of Pronunciation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1943
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African-American English: Structure, History and Use African-American English: Structure, History and Use (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 14 ratings — published 1998
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Chinese (Cambridge Language Surveys) Chinese (Cambridge Language Surveys)
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avg rating 3.73 — 48 ratings — published 1988
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Turkic Turkic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
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The Study of Social Dialects in American English The Study of Social Dialects in American English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1974
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Learn to Speak Cantonese I: A Beginner's Guide to Mastering Conversational Cantonese Learn to Speak Cantonese I: A Beginner's Guide to Mastering Conversational Cantonese (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 13 ratings — published
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Language or Dialect?: The History of a Conceptual Pair Language or Dialect?: The History of a Conceptual Pair (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.75 — 4 ratings — published 2021
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Inslä vom Glück Inslä vom Glück (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
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Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest: v.1 (Vol 1) Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest: v.1 (Vol 1)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
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Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education Dialects, Englishes, Creoles, and Education (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2006
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Discovering English Dialects (Shire Discovering) Discovering English Dialects (Shire Discovering)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2008
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Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2023
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Kiss My ...: A Dictionary of English-Irish Slang (English and Irish Edition) Kiss My ...: A Dictionary of English-Irish Slang (English and Irish Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 16 ratings — published 1999
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Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 2 Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology: Volume 2 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1999
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Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (Southern Classics) Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (Southern Classics)
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avg rating 4.12 — 17 ratings — published 1949
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Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 304 ratings — published 1950
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The Scots Dialect Dictionary The Scots Dialect Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 7 ratings — published 2000
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New York City English (Dialects of English [DOE], 10) New York City English (Dialects of English [DOE], 10)
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avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 2013
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The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 13) The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Series Number 13)
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avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published 1974
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African American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution, Educational Implications (Language in Society) African American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution, Educational Implications (Language in Society)
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avg rating 4.40 — 20 ratings — published 1999
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The Irish Dialect (CD included) The Irish Dialect (CD included)
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avg rating 4.86 — 7 ratings — published
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Patrick Leigh Fermor
“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed and barefoot old man say: “Yes, it’s the old iambic tetrameter acalectic.” It was the equivalent of a Cornish fisherman pointing out the difference, in practicality incomprehensible dialect, between the Petrachian and the Spenserian sonnet. It was quite correct. Where on earth had he learnt it? His last bit of information was that, in the old days (that wonderful cupboard!) the Arabs used to come to this coast to dive for the murex.”
Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese

Amitav Ghosh
“The unexpected dinner invitation from the budgerow started Mr Doughty off on a journey of garrulous reminiscence. 'Oh my boy!' said the pilot to Zachary, as they stood leaning on the deck rail. 'The old Raja of Raskhali: I could tell you a story or two about him--Rascally-Roger I used to call him!' He laughed, thumping the deck with his cane. 'Now there was a lordly nigger if ever you saw one! Best kind of native--kept himself busy with his shrub and his nautch-girls and his tumashers. Wasn't a man in town who could put on a burra-khana like he did. Sheeshmull blazing with shammers and candles. Paltans of bearers and khidmutgars. Demijohns of French loll-shrub and carboys of iced simkin. And the karibat! In the old days the Rascally bobachee-connah was the best in the city. No fear of pishpash and cobbily-mash at the Rascally table. The dumbpokes and pillaus were good enough, but we old hands, we'd wait for the curry of cockup and the chitchky of pollock-saug. Oh he set a rankin table I can tell you--and mind you, supper was just the start: the real tumasher came later, in the nautch-connah. Now there was another chuckmuck sight for you! Rows of cursies for the sahibs and mems to sit on. Sittringies and tuckiers for the natives. The baboos puffing at their hubble-bubbles and the sahibs lighting their Sumatra buncuses. Cunchunees whirling and tickytaw boys beating their tobblers. Oh, that old loocher knew how to put on a nautch all right! He was a sly little shaytan too, the Rascally-Roger: if he saw you eyeing one of the pootlies, he'd send around a khidmutgar, bobbing and bowing, the picture of innocence. People would think you'd eaten one too many jellybees and needed to be shown to the cacatorium. But instead of the tottee-connah, off you'd go to a little hidden cumra, there to puckrow your dashy. Not a memsahib present any the wiser--and there you were, with your gobbler in a cunchunee's nether-whiskers, getting yourself a nice little taste of a blackberry-bush.' He breathed a nostalgic sigh. 'Oh they were grand old goll-mauls, those Rascally burra-khanas! No better place to get your tatters tickled.'
Zachary nodded, as if no word of this had escaped him.”
Amitav Ghosh

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