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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,052 ratings — published 1990
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,306 ratings — published 2003
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,196 ratings — published 2017
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,460 ratings — published 1994
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,162 ratings — published 2018
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,332 ratings — published 2010
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,227 ratings — published 2001
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,901 ratings — published 2014
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.05 — 12,439 ratings — published 2019
Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.73 — 802 ratings — published 2019
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,982 ratings — published 1994
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,137 ratings — published 2003
Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.97 — 334 ratings — published 1995
Do Not Interrupt: A Playful Take on the Art of Conversation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.12 — 24 ratings — published 2010
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.45 — 5,963 ratings — published 2021
A Parliament of Owls: A Book of Collective Nouns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 16 ratings — published
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 486 ratings — published 2024
Language Myths (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,323 ratings — published 1998
The Secrets of Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.53 — 203 ratings — published 2022
The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An exploration of language, people and geography (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.41 — 81 ratings — published
Tales From the Word Guy: What Your English Teacher Never Taught You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Have You Eaten Grandma? (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,173 ratings — published 2018
Words from the Heart: An Emotional Dictionary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.21 — 156 ratings — published
Dialogue, Catalogue & Monologue: Personal, Impersonal and Depersonalizing Ways to use Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.47 — 15 ratings — published 2008
Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 50 ratings — published
Mental Floss: The Curious Compendium of Wonderful Words: A Miscellany of Obscure Terms, Bizarre Phrases & Surprising Etymologies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.88 — 42 ratings — published
The Dawn of Language: Axes, Lies, Midwifery and How We Came to Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.98 — 575 ratings — published 2019
The Whirl of Words: Puzzling Past and Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
The Secret Lives of Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.52 — 46 ratings — published 2000
Kleine Wahrig: Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1999
Port Out, Starboard Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.31 — 166 ratings — published 2000
Catching Fire: A Translation Diary (Untranslated Series)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 182 ratings — published
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 580 ratings — published 2021
That Mad Ache (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,630 ratings — published 1965
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,288 ratings — published 2023
Goal-Driven Lesson Planning for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Michigan Teacher Training (Hardcover))
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 2010
An Elementary Spanish Reader (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.33 — 210 ratings — published 1912
Spanish Verbs Made Simple(r)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 2005
Spanish: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Essential Grammars)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.67 — 12 ratings — published 2004
1001 Pitfalls in Spanish (1001 Pitfalls Series) (English and Spanish Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.20 — 51 ratings — published 1981
Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 555 ratings — published 1993
The Story of Latin and the Romance Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.11 — 18 ratings — published 1976
A Course in Language Teaching: Practice and Theory (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 241 ratings — published 1996
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up (Volume 71) (Sather Classical Lectures)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.59 — 425 ratings — published 2014
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,065 ratings — published 2011
The Story of Spanish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 615 ratings — published 2013
The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 184 ratings — published 2006
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 27,490 ratings — published 2019
The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,220 ratings — published 2018
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve: What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as non-fiction-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,050 ratings — published 2017
