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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,748 ratings — published 1990
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,795 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,780 ratings — published 1918
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 123,366 ratings — published 1998
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,246 ratings — published 2008
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,796 ratings — published 2011
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,444 ratings — published 2004
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,929,597 ratings — published 1813
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,182 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,951,371 ratings — published 1890
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,229 ratings — published 1994
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,962,660 ratings — published 1999
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,515 ratings — published 2013
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,586 ratings — published 2011
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,407 ratings — published 1986
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,243,870 ratings — published 1847
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,642,987 ratings — published 1948
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 804 ratings — published
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,557,723 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,648,090 ratings — published 1997
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,705,156 ratings — published 1945
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,961,725 ratings — published 1818
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,571 ratings — published 2012
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,322 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,596,129 ratings — published 1998
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,027,836 ratings — published 1960
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,728,164 ratings — published 2005
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,506,862 ratings — published 1985
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,864,740 ratings — published 1590
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,378,361 ratings — published 1847
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,515,724 ratings — published 1897
A History of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 901 ratings — published 1951
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,183,445 ratings — published 2007
English Grammar in Use With Answers: Reference and Practice for Intermediate Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,987 ratings — published 1985
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,287,490 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,873,868 ratings — published 2003
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,419 ratings — published 1996
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,052,136 ratings — published 1925
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,964,344 ratings — published 1951
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,132,821 ratings — published 2008
Word Power Made Easy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,225 ratings — published 1949
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 324,072 ratings — published 2000
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,506 ratings — published 2019
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,062 ratings — published 1926
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,349,134 ratings — published 1952
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,043,076 ratings — published 1623
Great Expectations (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 887,018 ratings — published 1861
Advanced Grammar in Use With answers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 751 ratings — published 1999
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,944,764 ratings — published 2018
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,321,664 ratings — published 1911
“Now Scots, it must be observed, is not English badly spelled; nor is it a dialect of English. To simplify, but not in a direction away from the truth; the Scots language was a development - and by now is a degeneration - of the Anglian branch of what is called Old English, and was originally spoken from the Forth to the Humber - that's to say, on both sides of the Border. The Saxon branch to the South flourished and became what we call English. With the establishment of the Border, the Anglian branch developed as Scots. Scots and English, therefore, are cousin languages with a common ancestor, and it is as absurdto call Scots a dialect of English as it would be to call English a dialect of Scots.”
― Scottish Eccentrics
― Scottish Eccentrics
“We may even conclude it to be an evidence of strength, rather than of weakness, that the Scots language and the Scottish literature did not maintain a separate existence. Scottish, throwing in its luck with English, has not only much greater chance of survival, but contributes important elements of strength to complete the English...”
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