Zhení's votes on the list Delicacies of English Language History

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1	A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh 3.89 avg rating — 902 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still by John McWhorter 4.14 avg rating — 1,980 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Stories of English by David Crystal 4.05 avg rating — 1,450 ratings Zhení added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Story of English by Robert McCrum 4.09 avg rating — 2,413 ratings Zhení added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester 3.99 avg rating — 5,331 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation by David Crystal 3.95 avg rating — 294 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling by David Wolman (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 303 ratings Zhení added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson 3.91 avg rating — 44,865 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John McWhorter 3.83 avg rating — 7,254 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya by Nicholas Best (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 708 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English by John Russell Rickford 3.94 avg rating — 177 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language by Joseph Piercy 3.51 avg rating — 238 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Rude Story of English by Tom Howell (Goodreads Author) 3.35 avg rating — 92 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Story of English: How the English Language Conquered the World by Philip Gooden 3.77 avg rating — 151 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling by David Crystal 3.95 avg rating — 918 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Story of English in India by N. Krishnaswamy 4.04 avg rating — 27 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Story of English in 100 Words by David Crystal 3.92 avg rating — 2,590 ratings Zhení added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar by David Crystal 4.01 avg rating — 381 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation by David Crystal 3.84 avg rating — 110 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	You Say Potato: The Story of English Accents by Ben Crystal 3.87 avg rating — 653 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English by Bruce Moore 3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Story of Australian English by Kel Richards 3.54 avg rating — 41 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester 3.99 avg rating — 5,331 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Language is power: the story of standard English and its enemies by John Honey 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	In a Manner of Speaking: The Story of Spoken English by Charlie Haylock 3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg 3.94 avg rating — 5,187 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Origins of the Specious: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language by Patricia T. O'Conner 3.80 avg rating — 623 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English by Lynne Murphy 3.93 avg rating — 1,237 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park by Jack Lynch 4.04 avg rating — 679 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca by John McWhorter 4.16 avg rating — 1,242 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	A Little Book of Language by David Crystal 3.75 avg rating — 2,485 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Architecture of Language by Noam Chomsky 3.42 avg rating — 272 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Architecture of Language by Quincy Troupe 3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Accidence Will Happen by Oliver Kamm 3.65 avg rating — 192 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins by Julia Cresswell 4.22 avg rating — 40 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins by John Ayto 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything by David Bellos 3.77 avg rating — 2,828 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris 3.61 avg rating — 6,564 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Welsh Language: A History by Janet Davies 3.97 avg rating — 153 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling by David Crystal 3.95 avg rating — 918 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Word On The Street: Debunking The Myth Of A Pure Standard English by John McWhorter 3.92 avg rating — 248 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars