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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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Vulgar Tongues
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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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The Story of English: Companion to the PBS TV Series
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The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary
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Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
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Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling
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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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Accidence Will Happen: A Recovering Pedant's Guide to English Language and Style
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Lexicon: American Style 2: Exercising Our English Language, Our 'Flexicon'
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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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Let's Talk: How English Conversation Works
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The American Language
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Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
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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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What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
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Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Confrontational Times
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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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Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture
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The Way We Talk Now
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Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language
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Swearing Is Good for You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language
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A World Without "Whom": The Essential Guide to Language in the BuzzFeed Age
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Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf
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The Language of the Blues: From Alcorub to Zuzu
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Race, Language, and Culture
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How to Swear: An Illustrated Guide
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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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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How Not to Write: The Essential Misrules of Grammar
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Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk
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ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to Old Age
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They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases
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The Story of And: The Little Word That Changed the World
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Anti-Racism (Words of Change series): Powerful Voices, Inspiring Ideas
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Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies
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