English Language


The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Elements of Style
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
The Stories of English
Pride and Prejudice
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
The Story of English in 100 Words
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
John McWhorter
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing.
John H. McWhorter, Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English

Kasie West
I don't like the words 'I'm fine'. My mom tells me those two words are the most-frequently-told lie in the English lenguage. ...more
Kasie West, The Fill-In Boyfriend

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