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Scots: The Mither Tongue (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 103 ratings — published 1986
The Scottish-English Linguistic Border; Lexical Aspects (The Cooper Monographs on English and American Langauge and Literature; English Dialect Series)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 541 ratings — published 2024
The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han (History of Imperial China, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 665 ratings — published 2007
Being and Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 28,917 ratings — published 1927
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,995 ratings — published 2016
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language ― A Witty Linguistics Book on How Thousands of Tongues Evolved from One Source (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 3,343 ratings — published 2001
Arctic Languages: An Awakening (U6615)
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avg rating 2.00 — 3 ratings — published 1990
The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.43 — 237 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,099 ratings — published 2015
Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 21 ratings — published 2004
Going Nucular: Language, Politics and Culture in Confrontational Times (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 231 ratings — published 2004
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,594 ratings — published 2012
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 7,724 ratings — published 2010
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 3,806 ratings — published 2013
The Dawn of Slavic: An Introduction to Slavic Philology (Yale Language Series)
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avg rating 4.07 — 28 ratings — published 1996
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 45,153 ratings — published 1990
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 407 ratings — published 1943
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 4,223 ratings — published 2007
Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 545 ratings — published 2007
An Introduction to Historical Linguistics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 97 ratings — published
The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 7,564 ratings — published 1969
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 6,522 ratings — published 2008
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,056 ratings — published 2007
Where Words Come From: A Dictionary of Word Origins (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published 2009
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 107,032 ratings — published 2003
The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 218 ratings — published 2007
Is There a Cow in Moscow?: More Beastly Mispronunciations and Sound Advice : Another Opinionated Guide for the Well-Spoken (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 25 ratings — published 1990
More Word Histories And Mysteries: From Aardvark to Zombie – Entertaining Stories of English Vocabulary and Regional Dialects (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 8 ratings — published 2006
Why You Say It: The Fascinating Stories Behind Over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 158 ratings — published 1954
Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.11 — 141 ratings — published 2012
“natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.”
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