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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 4,188 ratings — published 2021
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 1,507 ratings — published 2021
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 12,334 ratings — published 2019
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 9,104 ratings — published 2017
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,927 ratings — published 2016
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 7,219 ratings — published 2013
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,512 ratings — published 2012
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 2,520 ratings — published 2011
Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.61 — 879 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 542 ratings — published 2008
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,132 ratings — published 2008
The Story of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,391 ratings — published 1986
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,062 ratings — published 2005
Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 333 ratings — published 2004
The Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 42 ratings — published 1882
Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 110 ratings — published 1988
The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 215 ratings — published 2007
The Merriam Webster New Book of Word Histories: Fascinating Stories about our Living, Growing Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 51 ratings — published 1990
Dictionary of Word Origins: Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 236 ratings — published 1990
Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.46 — 348 ratings — published 2004
Unfortunate English: The Gloomy Truth Behind the Words You Use (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 155 ratings — published 2006
Word Origins ... and How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.48 — 202 ratings — published 2005
How to Say It: Words That Make a Difference (Audible Audio)
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avg rating 3.48 — 941 ratings — published
Romaine Wasn't Built in a Day: The Delightful History of Food Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.28 — 527 ratings — published
Занимательная орфография (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
Backpocket Words: Sharing the Essence of English Spelling (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.89 — 9 ratings — published
The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between: Volume II (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.64 — 47 ratings — published
How Technology Influences Language (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.65 — 116 ratings — published
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 6,519 ratings — published 2021
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 419,926 ratings — published 2022
Aromata & Chromata, Scents & Colours of Greece: A Crash Course in "Greekness" (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,036 ratings — published 2021
Word Travelers and the Taj Mahal Mystery (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 233 ratings — published
Etimologías griegas del español (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1949
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 111,731 ratings — published 2021
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 570 ratings — published 2021
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 2,953 ratings — published 2021
Münsters Ortsnamen: Sprachliche und geschichtliche Betrachtungen (German Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
#Панталоныфракжилет: Что такое языковые заимствования и как они работают (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.26 — 72 ratings — published 2020
The Cabinet of Calm: Soothing Words for Troubled Times (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 47 ratings — published 2020
Once Upon a Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary for Kids―Building Vocabulary Through Etymology, Definitions & Stories (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 107 ratings — published
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 182,101 ratings — published 2020
دانشنامهی نقد ادبی: از افلاتون تا به امروز (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published
Palabras castellanas de origen griego (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1994
Los helenismos del español: historia y sistema (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2004
What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 920 ratings — published 2020
Emperors, Admirals and Chimney Sweepers: The names of British butterflies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 17 ratings — published
Language Families of the World (Audible Audio)
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avg rating 4.42 — 981 ratings — published 2019
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 5,738 ratings — published 2021
The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 353 ratings — published
