Subject: English language › History

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• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester (6,179 copies)
• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (4,149 copies)
• The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester (1,781 copies)
• The Story of English by Robert McCrum (1,488 copies)
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal (827 copies)
• The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg (734 copies)
• The Stories of English by David Crystal (703 copies)
• In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How… by Alister McGrath (472 copies)
• A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh (443 copies)
• Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold Story of English by John McWhorter (313 copies)
• Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's… by Henry Hitchings (303 copies)
• The Origins and Development of the English Language by Thomas Pyles (280 copies)
• Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford… by K. M. Elisabeth Murray (261 copies)
• The English Language by Robert Burchfield (239 copies)
• The English Language: A Historical introduction (Canto) by Charles Barber (191 copies)
• The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings (174 copies)
• Our Marvelous Native Tongue by Robert Claiborne (165 copies)
• The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and… by David Crystal (162 copies)
• A Biography of the English Language by C.M. Millward (161 copies)
• The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language by David Crystal (153 copies)
• History in English Words by Owen Barfield (140 copies)
• Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language by Seth Lerer (128 copies)
• Growth and Structure of the English Language by Otto Jespersen (121 copies)
• Swearing by Geoffrey Hughes (115 copies)
• The Miracle of Language by Charlton Laird (79 copies)
• Wicked Words (Horrible Histories Special) by Terry Deary (78 copies)
• Problems in the Origins and Development of the English… by John Algeo (77 copies)
• Spellbound: The Surprising Origins and Astonishing Secrets… by James Essinger (67 copies)
• The Story of the English Language by Mario Pei (59 copies)
• The Warden of English: The Life of H.W. Fowler by Jenny McMorris (58 copies)
• Wordwatching: Field Notes of an Amateur Philologist by Julian Burnside (57 copies)
• A history of English in its own words by Craig M. Carver (55 copies)
• Unlocking the English Language by Robert Burchfield (54 copies)
• Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs: And… by Katherine Barber (53 copies)
• From Old English to Standard English (Studies in English… by Dennis Freeborn (53 copies)
• Story of Language by C.L. Barber (49 copies)
• A History of English Words (The Language Library) by Geoffrey Hughes (47 copies)
• Origins of the English Language by Joseph M. Williams (43 copies)
• Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the… by Kate Burridge (42 copies)
• A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach (Blackwell… by Barbara Fennell (41 copies)
• The Oxford History of English by Lynda Mugglestone (41 copies)
• The History of the English Language: A Source Book, Second… by David Burnley (41 copies)
• The Changing English Language by Brian Foster (39 copies)
• The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and… by Ronald Carter (36 copies)
• A Social History of English by Dick Leith (33 copies)
• Much Ado about English: Up and Down the Bizarre Byways of a… by Richard Watson Todd (31 copies)
• The Treasure of Our Tongue by Lincoln Kinnear Barnett (29 copies)
• The Making of English by Henry Bradley (28 copies)
• A Cultural History of the English Language by Gerry Knowles (25 copies)
• The Roots of Modern English by L. M. Myers (25 copies)

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