Subject: English language › History

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• The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester (5,050 copies)
• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (3,418 copies)
• The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester (1,456 copies)
• The Story of English by Robert McCrum (1,215 copies)
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal (686 copies)
• The Stories of English by David Crystal (590 copies)
• The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg (587 copies)
• In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How… by Alister E. McGrath (393 copies)
• A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh (353 copies)
• Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's… by Henry Hitchings (233 copies)
• Origins and Development of the English Language by Thomas Pyles (233 copies)
• Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford… by K. M. Elisabeth Murray (209 copies)
• The English Language by R.W. Burchfield (180 copies)
• The English Language: A Historical introduction by C.L. Barber (151 copies)
• A Biography of the English Language by C.M. Millward (140 copies)
• Our Marvelous Native Tongue by Robert Claiborne (135 copies)
• The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and… by David Crystal (124 copies)
• The English Language by David Crystal (122 copies)
• Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of… by John H. McWhorter (118 copies)
• History in English Words by Owen Barfield (107 copies)
• The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings (103 copies)
• Growth and structure of the English language by Otto Jespersen (102 copies)
• Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language by Seth Lerer (93 copies)
• Swearing by Geoffrey Hughes (91 copies)
• Problems in the Origins and Development of the English… by John Algeo (66 copies)
• The Miracle of Language by Charlton Laird (63 copies)
• Wicked Words (Horrible Histories Special) by Terry Deary (59 copies)
• Spellbound: The Surprising Origins and Astonishing Secrets… by James Essinger (54 copies)
• The Story of the English Language by Mario Pei (49 copies)
• The Warden of English: The Life of H.W. Fowler by Jenny McMorris (48 copies)
• A history of English in its own words by Craig M. Carver (46 copies)
• Wordwatching: Field Notes of an Amateur Philologist by Julian Burnside (45 copies)
• Unlocking the English Language by Robert Burchfield (43 copies)
• Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs: And… by Katherine Barber (41 copies)
• The story of language by Charles Laurence Barber (37 copies)
• From Old English to Standard English (Studies in English… by Dennis Freeborn (37 copies)
• The Changing English Language by Brian Foster (34 copies)
• Origins of the English Language by Joseph M. Williams (33 copies)
• The History of the English Language: A Source Book, Second… by David Burnley (32 copies)
• A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach by Barbara A. Fennell (32 copies)
• Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the… by Kate Burridge (32 copies)
• The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and… by Ronald Carter (30 copies)
• Words in time : a social history of the English vocabulary by Geoffrey Hughes (30 copies)
• A Social History of English by Dick Leith (28 copies)
• A History of the English Language by G. L. Brook (24 copies)
• On The Study Of Words by Richard Chenevix Trench (24 copies)
• The Oxford History of English by Lynda Mugglestone (23 copies)
• The Making of English by Henry Bradley (23 copies)
• Much Ado about English: Up and Down the Bizarre Byways of a… by Richard Watson Todd (22 copies)
• Our Own Words by Mary Helen Dohan (22 copies)

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