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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.91 — 43,921 ratings — published 1990
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,232 ratings — published 2003
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 86,694 ratings — published 1918
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,247 ratings — published 1998
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 — 12,266 ratings — published 2011
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,150 ratings — published 2008
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,428 ratings — published 2004
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,720,252 ratings — published 1813
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,120 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,832,010 ratings — published 1890
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,264 ratings — published 2013
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,936 ratings — published 1994
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,758,524 ratings — published 1999
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,530 ratings — published 2011
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 801 ratings — published
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,998,205 ratings — published 1847
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,344,208 ratings — published 1949
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,451,991 ratings — published 1945
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 — 2,515 ratings — published 2012
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,396 ratings — published 1986
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,401,858 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,231,608 ratings — published 1997
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,819,238 ratings — published 1818
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,239 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,610,859 ratings — published 2005
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,373,569 ratings — published 1985
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,794,710 ratings — published 1590
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,291,348 ratings — published 1847
English Grammar in Use With Answers: Reference and Practice for Intermediate Students (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,967 ratings — published 1985
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 — 4,400 ratings — published 1996
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,419,424 ratings — published 1998
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,782,039 ratings — published 1960
A History of the English Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 893 ratings — published 1951
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,847,128 ratings — published 1951
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,060,409 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,131,674 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,743,763 ratings — published 2003
Word Power Made Easy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.42 — 9,151 ratings — published 1949
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 314,387 ratings — published 2000
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,445,866 ratings — published 1897
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,058 ratings — published 1926
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,819,713 ratings — published 1925
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,744,337 ratings — published 2008
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,329 ratings — published 2019
Advanced Grammar in Use With answers (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.18 — 749 ratings — published 1999
The Secret Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,279,914 ratings — published 1911
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words: A Writer's Guide to Getting It Right (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,219 ratings — published 1984
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,290,006 ratings — published 1952
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,005,887 ratings — published 1623
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as english-language)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,157,806 ratings — published 1954
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language
“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
