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A History of the English Language
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Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
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The Stories of English
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The Story of English
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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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Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation
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3.96 avg rating — 294 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 — 44,139 ratings
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
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3.83 avg rating — 7,183 ratings
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Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya
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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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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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The Rude Story of English
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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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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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The Story of English in India
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The Story of English in 100 Words
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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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Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation
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3.84 avg rating — 106 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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Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian English
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The Story of Australian English
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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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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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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 Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
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3.94 avg rating — 5,144 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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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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The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park
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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
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4.16 avg rating — 1,204 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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The Architecture of Language
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Accidence Will Happen
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3.66 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
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Oxford School Dictionary of Word Origins
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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 — 2,793 ratings
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Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
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3.61 avg rating — 6,522 ratings
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The Welsh Language: A History
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3.99 avg rating — 146 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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