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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 820 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 44,903 ratings — published 1990
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 795 times as language)
avg rating 4.01 — 22,716 ratings — published 1994
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 706 times as language)
avg rating 3.87 — 106,881 ratings — published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 587 times as language)
avg rating 4.08 — 13,661 ratings — published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 516 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,647 ratings — published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 439 times as language)
avg rating 3.84 — 123,990 ratings — published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 432 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,889 ratings — published 2011
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 416 times as language)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,812 ratings — published 2019
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 394 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 88,194 ratings — published 1918
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 375 times as language)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,136 ratings — published 2005
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as language)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,156 ratings — published 2005
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 361 times as language)
avg rating 3.83 — 7,259 ratings — published 2008
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source (Paperback)
by (shelved 357 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,318 ratings — published 2001
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 357 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 11,281 ratings — published 2007
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 290 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 — 9,518 ratings — published 2017
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 287 times as language)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,016 ratings — published 2009
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 277 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,150 ratings — published 1980
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 271 times as language)
avg rating 3.79 — 125,928 ratings — published 2021
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 266 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 16,297 ratings — published 1994
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 247 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,798 ratings — published 2014
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as language)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,878 ratings — published 2014
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 226 times as language)
avg rating 4.22 — 30,091 ratings — published 2019
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,193 ratings — published 2003
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 219 times as language)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,830 ratings — published 2011
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as language)
avg rating 3.79 — 4,339 ratings — published 2018
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 208 times as language)
avg rating 4.04 — 9,366 ratings — published 2014
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 184 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 531,987 ratings — published 2022
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,077 ratings — published 2015
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 173 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,413 ratings — published 1986
Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,290 ratings — published 2025
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as language)
avg rating 4.35 — 7,572 ratings — published 2013
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,818 ratings — published 1956
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,939 ratings — published 1999
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 161 times as language)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,145 ratings — published 2007
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 160 times as language)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,980 ratings — published 2016
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 160 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,593 ratings — published 2011
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 9,552 ratings — published 2019
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 147 times as language)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,487 ratings — published 2021
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 145 times as language)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,200 ratings — published 2004
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as language)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,453 ratings — published 2004
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as language)
avg rating 4.16 — 402 ratings — published 1943
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as language)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,498 ratings — published 2014
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as language)
avg rating 3.97 — 6,369 ratings — published 2008
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,335 ratings — published 2003
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,492 ratings — published 2012
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as language)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,111 ratings — published 2015
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 — 326,166 ratings — published 2002
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 125 times as language)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,581 ratings — published 2012
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,055 ratings — published 2007
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as language)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,343 ratings — published 2006
“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“i do not say 'good-bye.' i believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. it's not like you're given the choice to say 'bad-bye' or 'awful-bye' or 'couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye.' every time you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. well, i don't believe in that. i believe against that.”
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
― Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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