Most Read This Week In Language


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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
Intimacies
The Language of Liars
Glyph
A War of Wyverns (A Language of Dragons, #2)
Hèhè
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
The Centre
Mother Tongue
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
The Colony
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
The Republic of Memory (The Song of the Safina, #1)
Wordhunter
The Definitions
Misinterpretation
The Killing Spell
In het kort
Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
What We Are Seeking
Frog: And Other Essays
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth
Monster Hands
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
Głusza
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Vita mortale e immortale della bambina di Milano
The Naming Song
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
Fake Chinese Sounds
poyums
The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name
Making Love with the Land: Essays
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History On Where They Come From!
Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
America, My Love, America, My Heart: A Powerful Picture Book About Race and Identity for Kids (Ages 4-8)
My Broken Language
On the Mark: From Periods to Interrobangs, How Punctuation Remade the World
Etymologian etymologia ja muita etymologioita (Kirjokansi #370)
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language in Renaissance Italy
The Wombats Go Wild for Words
More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
Born in a Second Language
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Home in a Lunchbox
The Rock in My Throat
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
The Scythian Empire: Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son and 'The Tradition of Versification in Old English'
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation
Gibberish
Deep Wheel Orcadia
The Lost Language
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
Fifty Sounds
De langue à langue: L'hospitalité de la traduction (French Edition)
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
Always Carry Salt: A Memoir of Preserving Language and Culture
Little Bird Laila
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Speaking in Tongues
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
The Interpreter
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
A Mischief of Mice
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
The Riddles of the Sphinx: Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle – A Memoir and Historical Account of Word Games and Female Resistance
A Chest Full of Words
The Wordy Book
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
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George Orwell
“ But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. ”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

Patrick Rothfuss
“ Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding. ”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

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