Popular Narrative
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Bryson,
Bill
- Made in America
- The Mother Tongue
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Lederer, Richard
- Adventures of a Verbivore
- Anguished English
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- Crazy English
- Get Thee to a Punnery
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- The Miracle of Language
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- The Play of Words
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Safire, William
- Language Maven Strikes Again
- On Language
- What's the Good Word?
- You Could Look It Up
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Truss,
Lynne
- Eats, Shoots & Leaves
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Winchester, Simon
- The Meaning of Everything
- The Professor and the Madman
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Etymology/Factoids
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American Heritage Dictionaries
- Word Mysteries and Histories: From Quiche to Humble Pie
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Ayto,
John
- Dictionary of Word Origins
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Castle
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Ciardi,
John
- A Browser's Dictionary: A Compendium of Curious
Expressions & Intriguing Facts
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Dickson, Paul
- Words: A Connoisseur's Collection of Old and New, Weird
and Wonderful, Useful and Outlandish
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Ehrlich, Eugene
- Amo, Amas, Amat and More: How to Use Latin to Your Own
Advantage and to the Astonishment of Others
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Elster,
Charles Harrington
- Is There a Cow in Moscow?
- There is No Zoo in Zoology
- There's a Word for It!
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Fakih,
Kimberly Olson
- Off the Clock: A Lexicon of Time Words and Expressions
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Feldman, David
- Who Put the Butter in Butterfly?
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Funk,
Charles Earle
- Heavens to Betsy!
- A Hog on Ice
- Horsefeathers
- Thereby Hangs a Tale
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Macrone,
Michael
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Reference/How-To
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American Heritage Dictionaries
- American Heritage College Dictionary
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Abrams,
M. H.
- A Glossary of Literary Terms
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Bernstein, Theodore M.
- The Careful Writer
- Watch Your Language
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Bly,
Robert W.
- The Copywriter's Handbook
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Brande,
Dorothea
- Becoming a Writer
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Cioffi,
Frank L.
- The Imaginative Argument
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Einsohn,
Amy
- The Copyeditor's Handbook
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Follett, Wilson
- Modern American Usage: A Guide
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Fowler,
H. W.
- A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
- A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (second edition -
revised and edited by Sir Ernest Gowers)
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Gibaldi,
Joseph
- MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (5th ed.)
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Johnson, Edward D.
- The Handbook of Good English
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Lewis,
Norman
- The Comprehensive Word Guide
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O'Conner, Patricia T.
- Woe Is I
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Russell, Geddes and Grosset
- Webster's New Dictionary
(compact edition)
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Sykes,
J.B.
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary
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Scholarly
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Baghramian, Maria
- Modern Philosophy of Language
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Bauer,
Laurie and Peter Trudgill
- Language Myths
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Baugh,
Albert C.
- A History of the English Language
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Black,
Max
- The Importance of Language
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Bloomfield, Leonard
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Bodmer,
Frederick
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Brown,
Charles Barrett
- The Contribution of Greek to English
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Brown,
Roger
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Bruner,
Jerome
- Child's Talk: Learning to Use Language
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Chomsky, Noam
- On Language (contains Language and Responsibility
and Reflections on Language)
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Claiborne, Robert
- Our Marvelous Native Tongue: The Life and Times of the
English Language
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Corballis, Michael C.
- From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language
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Finch,
Geoffrey
- Linguistics Terms and Concepts
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Harris,
Martin and Nigel Vincent
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Hook,
J. N.
- The Story of British English
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Jacyna,
L. S.
- Lost Words
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Lloyd,
Donald J. and Harry R. Warfel
- American English in Its Cultural Setting
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Mencken, H. L.
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Moore,
Oliver
- Reading the Past: Chinese
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Moorhouse, Alfred C.
- The Triumph of the Alphabet
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Nakanishi, Akira
- Writing Systems of the World
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Nettle,
Daniel and Suzanne Romaine
- Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
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O'Grady, Dobrovolsky, and Arnoff
- Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction
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Osgood,
Charles E. and Murray S. Miron
- Approaches to the Study of Aphasia
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Pei,
Mario
- All about Language
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Posner,
Rebecca
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Wang,
Hongyuan
- The Origins of Chinese Characters
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Wilson,
John
- Language and the Pursuit of Truth
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