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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 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 3,007 ratings — published 2009
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 29,490 ratings — published 2019
The Story of French (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,013 ratings — published 2002
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,120 ratings — published 2005
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 1,489 ratings — published 2012
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 4,126 ratings — published 2005
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 7,582 ratings — published 2010
The Stories of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,444 ratings — published 2004
The Dictionary Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,290 ratings — published
Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 689 ratings — published 2016
How Dead Languages Work (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 219 ratings — published
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 2,334 ratings — published 2013
Depraved and Insulting English (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 165 ratings — published 2002
When You Catch an Adjective, Kill It: The Parts of Speech, for Better And/Or Worse (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 398 ratings — published 2007
The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,270 ratings — published 2010
Palabras más, palabras menos: herramientas para una escritura eficaz (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 29 ratings — published 2008
Bastard Tongues: A Trail-Blazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 396 ratings — published 2008
English as a Second F*cking Language: How to Swear Effectively, Explained in Detail With Numerous Examples Taken from Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 463 ratings — published 1996
The Vulgar Tongue: Green's History of Slang (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 32 ratings — published 2014
I is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How it Shapes the Way We See the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 797 ratings — published 2011
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
You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 681 ratings — published 2011
¿Qué es boniato, maestro? Pequeño diccionario ilustrado de uruguayismos para porteños: Contiene como chiquicientas definiciones (Spanish Edition)
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avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
Cambridge Topics in English Language Language Change (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 7 ratings — published
Cambridge Topics in English Language Language and Power (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.25 — 8 ratings — published
Cambridge Topics in English Language Language Diversity and World Englishes (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published
Cambridge Topics in English Language The Language of Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 8 ratings — published
Cambridge Topics in English Language Language and Gender (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 9 ratings — published
Cambridge Topics in English Language Text Analysis and Representation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,400 ratings — published 2023
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,150 ratings — published 2021
The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,838 ratings — published 2016
The Story of Spanish (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 633 ratings — published 2013
Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,234 ratings — published 2016
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 513,902 ratings — published 2022
Intimacies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 43,804 ratings — published 2021
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 557,613 ratings — published 1984
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 9,505 ratings — published 2019
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 16,224 ratings — published 1994
Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 534 ratings — published 2008
In Other Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 15,987 ratings — published 2015
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 713 ratings — published 2003
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,212 ratings — published 2013
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,052 ratings — published 2007
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3,079 ratings — published 2011
Metaphors Be With You: An A to Z Dictionary of History's Greatest Metaphorical Quotations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 140 ratings — published
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 3,250 ratings — published 1984
Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 339 ratings — published 2007
Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 286 ratings — published 2005
The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 (European Expansion & Global Interaction, 1)
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avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2000
