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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
The Language of Liars
Glyph
Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life
Eden
The Mulai
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
Why Do We Say That? 101 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History On Where They Come From!
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
On the Mark: From Periods to Interrobangs, How Punctuation Remade the World
Etymologian etymologia ja muita etymologioita (Kirjokansi #370)
The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language in Renaissance Italy
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
The Lost Language
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
Fifty Sounds
Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Speaking in Tongues
The Ancient Art of Thinking For Yourself: The Power of Rhetoric in Polarized Times
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology
Żeńska końcówka języka
العرنجية
Battle of the Linguist Mages
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language
Se vive y se traduce
The Lost Language of Oysters (Portuguese Irregular Verbs, #6)
Speak Still: Articulating the Silence of Bilingualism
The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities
The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word – An Informative and Engaging Look at Language, Women, and Society
Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
Die goeie ouwe taal
These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means
The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language
The Philosophy of Translation
De-a dacii și romanii: o introducere în istoria limbii și etnogenezei românilor
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
The Conscious Style Guide: A Flexible Approach to Language That Includes, Respects, and Empowers
Yoke of Stars
The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
Luka. Jak wstyd i lęk dziurawią nam język
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!
You're All Talk
The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language
La lingua che cambia: Rappresentare le identità di genere, creare gli immaginari, aprire lo spazio linguistico
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies
Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask
The Secrets of Words
Перемагати українською. Про мову ненависті й любові
Tolkienin tulkkina – Tarina Sormusten herran suomentamisesta
Così non schwa. Limiti ed eccessi del linguaggio inclusivo
Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
Translating Myself and Others
Essays Two
Som dones, som lingüistes, som moltes i diem prou
Le ragioni del dubbio: L'arte di usare le parole
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments)
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
The Hidden History of Coined Words
Hyphen (Object Lessons)
Dancing On Ropes
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
This Is the Voice
Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

عبد الوهاب المسيري
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― عبد الوهاب المسيري, اللغة والمجاز: بين التوحيد ووحدة الوجود

Lynne Truss
“ In Beachcomber’s hilarious columns about the Apostropher Royal in The Express, a certain perversely comforting law is often reiterated: the Law of Conservation of Apostrophes. A heresy since the 13th century, this law states that a balance exists in nature: "For every apostrophe omitted from an it’s, there is an extra one put into an its." Thus the number of apostrophes in circulation remains constant, even if this means we have double the reason to go and bang our heads against a wall. ...more ”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

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