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Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 106,804 ratings — published 2003
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,459 ratings — published 2017
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 124,071 ratings — published 2021
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 29,613 ratings — published 2019
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 44,756 ratings — published 1990
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 123,414 ratings — published 1998
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 198,950 ratings — published 2020
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87,798 ratings — published 1918
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 2,437 ratings — published 2021
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3,081 ratings — published 2011
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,215 ratings — published 2013
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language – A Witty Linguistics Guide to How Tongues Mix, Mutate, and Evolve (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,302 ratings — published 2001
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 5,669 ratings — published 2002
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,447 ratings — published 2021
Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 2,425 ratings — published 2019
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 9,508 ratings — published 2019
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,696 ratings — published 1994
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,973 ratings — published 2016
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 62,141 ratings — published 2010
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 12,798 ratings — published 2011
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 5,323 ratings — published 2003
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 7,247 ratings — published 2008
Word Nerd (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 3,452 ratings — published 2008
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 60,757 ratings — published 2001
Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 331 ratings — published 2004
The Deluxe Transitive Vampire: The Ultimate Handbook of Grammar for the Innocent, the Eager, and the Doomed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,565 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
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 3.56 — 217 ratings — published 2007
The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,270 ratings — published 2010
Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 517,440 ratings — published 2022
The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.45 — 751 ratings — published 2019
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.47 — 1,045 ratings — published 2020
The Library: A Fragile History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 2,129 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 — 598 ratings — published 2021
The Emotionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 1,035 ratings — published 2016
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,783 ratings — published 2016
A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 490 ratings — published 2017
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,572 ratings — published 2012
You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 682 ratings — published 2011
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 — 3,011 ratings — published 2009
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 1,048 ratings — published 2006
The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and Journalists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 319 ratings — published 1982
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 3,252 ratings — published 1984
Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 919 ratings — published 2012
Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 622 ratings — published 2009
History in English Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 348 ratings — published 1926
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 11,165 ratings — published 1911
Garner's Modern American Usage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.60 — 1,071 ratings — published 1998
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 2,380 ratings — published 1999
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 113,228 ratings — published 1994
