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The Dictionary of Lost Words
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Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
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Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language
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The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
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The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
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Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
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The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
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The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
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The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
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How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
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Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
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Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell
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How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
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Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language
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Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
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The Centre
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Gibberish
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Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
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Sprache und Sein
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The Liar's Dictionary
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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
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Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
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A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
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James
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Useless Etymology: Offbeat Word Origins for Curious Minds
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The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
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Translating Myself and Others
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology
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What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He and She
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Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
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Intimacies
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Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
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Friends with Words: Adventures in Languageland
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Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages
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No Reading Allowed: The WORST Read-Aloud Book Ever (The Worst Book Ever)
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True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink
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Why We Talk Funny: The Real Story Behind Our Accents
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Speaking in Tongues
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True Biz
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The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
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How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
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Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
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The Mountain in the Sea
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Luli and the Language of Tea
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The Origin of Language: How We Learned to Speak and Why
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The Colony
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Suppose a Sentence
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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
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Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
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The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
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Magic Words: The New Science of Language for Persuasion, Communication, and Driving Action
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A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
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How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
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Project Hail Mary
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The Language-Lover's Lexipedia: An A-Z of Linguistic Curiosities
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Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word – An Informative and Engaging Look at Language, Women, and Society
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Fifty Words for Snow
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You Talkin' To Me?: The Unruly History of New York English (The Dialects of North America)
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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
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The Language of Liars
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Remarkably Bright Creatures
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Cloud Cuckoo Land
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This Is the Voice
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Easy Korean Reading For Beginners (소리내어 읽어보는 30가지 이야기)
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Babel
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
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My Broken Language
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Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
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Fifty Sounds
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The Arabic Quilt: An Immigrant Story
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Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
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Grammar for a Full Life: How the Ways We Shape a Sentence Can Limit or Enlarge Us
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Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
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Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
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