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Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology

Words from Hell

Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of...

Jess Zafarris

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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

The Dictionary People

The Unsung Heroes Who Created the...

Sarah Ogilvie

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The Long Journey of English: A Geographical History of the Language

The Long Journey of English

A Geographical History of the Language...

Peter Trudgill (Université de Fribourg,...

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Introducing the History of the English Language

Introducing the History of the English...

Seth Lerer

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Nine Nasty Words

Nine Nasty Words

John McWhorter

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The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe

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Lexical perplexities and cracking...

Alex Bellos

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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins

Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins...

Julia Cresswell

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Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One

Writing a War of Words

Andrew Clark and the Search for...

Lynda Mugglestone

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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics...

Janet Holmes

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The Hidden History of Coined Words

The Hidden History of Coined Words...

Ralph Keyes

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Because Internet: Understanding how language is changing

Because Internet

Understanding how language is changing...

Gretchen McCulloch

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The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries

The Cambridge Companion to English...

Sarah Ogilvie

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Australia's Original Languages: An Introduction

Australia's Original Languages

An Introduction

R. M. W. Dixon

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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the...

David Crystal (University of Wales,...

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Signs of Civilisation: How punctuation changed history

Signs of Civilisation

How punctuation changed history...

Bård Borch Michalsen

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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Meaning of Everything

The Story of the Oxford English...

Simon Winchester

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The Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek

The Cambridge Grammar of Classical...

Evert van Emde Boas

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The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical Study

The Ancient Egyptian Language

An Historical Study

James P. Allen (Brown University,...

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Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language

Begat

The King James Bible and the English...

David Crystal (University of Wales,...

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The Revised Latin Primer

The Revised Latin Primer

Benjamin Hall Kennedy

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Fair Dinkum!: Aussie Slang

Fair Dinkum!

Aussie Slang

H.G Nelson

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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Once Upon a Prime

The Wondrous Connections Between...

Sarah Hart

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Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China

Kingdom of Characters

A Tale of Language, Obsession, and...

Jing Tsu

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Index, A History of the

Index, A History of the

Dennis Duncan

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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

The Wordhord

Daily Life in Old English

Hana Videen

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An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!

An Admirable Point

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Florence Hazrat

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The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An Exploration of Language, People and Geography

The Atlas of Unusual Languages

An Exploration of Language, People...

Zoran Nikolic

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The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk

The Dawn of Language

The story of how we came to talk...

Sverker Johansson

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Politics and the English Language

Politics and the English Language...

George Orwell

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Betoota-isms: A Guide to The Betoota Advocate's Most Memorable Slang, Nicknames and Sayings

Betoota-isms

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The Betoota Advocate

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A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order

A Place For Everything

The Curious History of Alphabetical...

Judith Flanders

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The Universal Translator: Everything you need to know about 139 languages that don’t really exist

The Universal Translator

Everything you need to know about...

Yens Wahlgren

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