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Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling
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3.95 avg rating — 906 ratings
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A History of the English Language
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3.89 avg rating — 897 ratings
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Vulgar Tongues
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3.12 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Forgotten English: A Merry Guide to Antiquated Words, Packed with History, Fun Facts, Literary Excerpts, and Charming Drawings
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3.69 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
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4.14 avg rating — 1,950 ratings
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The Stories of English
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4.05 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
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The Story of English
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4.09 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
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Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation
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3.96 avg rating — 294 ratings
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 121,741 ratings
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
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3.83 avg rating — 7,187 ratings
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.99 avg rating — 5,258 ratings
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Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk
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4.21 avg rating — 434 ratings
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The Welsh Language: A History
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3.99 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Life of Guy: Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Unlikely History of an Indispensable Word
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3.51 avg rating — 47 ratings
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The Story of English: Companion to the PBS TV Series
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4.09 avg rating — 2,404 ratings
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.99 avg rating — 5,258 ratings
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The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary
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3.84 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling
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3.61 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
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3.91 avg rating — 44,153 ratings
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Accidence Will Happen: A Recovering Pedant's Guide to English Language and Style
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3.66 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 685 ratings
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Lexicon: American Style 2: Exercising Our English Language, Our 'Flexicon'
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
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3.93 avg rating — 175 ratings
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You've Got Ketchup on Your Muumuu: An A--to--Z Guide to English Words from Around the World
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language
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3.52 avg rating — 237 ratings
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Let's Talk: How English Conversation Works
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3.58 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Rude Story of English
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3.36 avg rating — 91 ratings
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The American Language
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4.12 avg rating — 552 ratings
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The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World
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3.77 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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4.05 avg rating — 12,492 ratings
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Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language
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3.86 avg rating — 791 ratings
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The Story of English in India
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27 ratings
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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
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3.75 avg rating — 1,764 ratings
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The Story of English in 100 Words
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3.92 avg rating — 2,538 ratings
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Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Confrontational Times
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3.85 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar
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4.01 avg rating — 375 ratings
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The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other
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4.05 avg rating — 584 ratings
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Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation
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3.84 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
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3.70 avg rating — 100 ratings
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You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents
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3.88 avg rating — 642 ratings
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The Way We Talk Now
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3.52 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English
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3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language
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3.91 avg rating — 70 ratings
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The Story of Australian English
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3.54 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
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3.48 avg rating — 2,035 ratings
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A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
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3.72 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Language is power: the story of standard English and its enemies
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3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
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3.96 avg rating — 361 ratings
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In a Manner of Speaking: The Story of Spoken English
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3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu
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3.88 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
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3.94 avg rating — 5,145 ratings
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Race, Language, and Culture
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3.93 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
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3.81 avg rating — 621 ratings
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How to Swear: An Illustrated Guide
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3.80 avg rating — 287 ratings
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The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
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3.93 avg rating — 1,221 ratings
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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3.88 avg rating — 2,306 ratings
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The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park
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4.05 avg rating — 673 ratings
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I Love it When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech
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3.46 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
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4.16 avg rating — 1,207 ratings
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How Not to Write: The Essential Misrules of Grammar
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3.78 avg rating — 174 ratings
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A Little Book of Language
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3.75 avg rating — 2,376 ratings
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The Architecture of Language
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3.42 avg rating — 269 ratings
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ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to Old Age
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Architecture of Language
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3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings
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They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases
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3.87 avg rating — 318 ratings
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Accidence Will Happen
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3.66 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Story of And: The Little Word That Changed the World
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3.49 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
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4.23 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Anti-Racism (Words of Change series): Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas
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4.27 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins
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3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
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4.33 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything
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3.77 avg rating — 2,796 ratings
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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
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3.61 avg rating — 6,523 ratings
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Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling
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3.95 avg rating — 906 ratings
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Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English
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3.91 avg rating — 245 ratings
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