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• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
• Made in America by Bill Bryson
• The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler
• They Have a Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of… by Howard Rheingold
• Thereby Hangs a Tale by Charles Earle Funk
• Crazy English by Richard Lederer
• The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from… by Adam Jacot de Boinod
• An Exaltation of Larks: or, The Venereal Game by James Lipton
• Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
• Heavens to Betsy!: And Other Curious Sayings by Charles Earle Funk
• The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever… by Jeffrey Kacirk
• Almanac of Words at Play by Willard R. Espy
• The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
• Horsefeathers and other curious words by Charles E. Funk
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to… by Lynne Truss
• A Hog on Ice by Charles Earle Funk
• The Word Detective: Solving the Mysteries Behind Those… by Evan Morris
• The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower
• The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams
• Who Put Butter in Butterfly...and Other Fearless… by David Feldman
• Forgotten English by Jeffrey Kacirk
• The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous… by Peter Bowler
• The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our… by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun With 860,341,500 Words by Gyles Brandreth
• Word Myths, Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends by David Wilton
• Devious Derivations by Hugh Rawson
• Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of… by Jr., Roy Blount
• The Play of Words by Richard Lederer
• Why You Say It by Webb B. Garrison
• Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and… by Josefa Heifetz Byrne
• Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean
• The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-Bred Words by Peter Bowler
• Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea
• Dimboxes, Epopts, and Other Quidams: Words to Describe… by David Grambs
• The Word Circus: A Letter-Perfect Book (Lighter Side of… by Richard Lederer
• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler
• The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent… by Geoffrey K. Pullum
• Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and… by Hugh Rawson
• In a Word by Margaret S. Ernst
• Poplollies & Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words Along… by Susan Kelz Sperling
• English as a Second F*cking Language: How to Swear… by Sterling Johnson
• The Highly Selective Dictionary For The Extraordinarily… by Eugene Ehrlich
• I Always Look up the Word "Egregious" by Maxwell W. Nurnberg
• Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning by Sol Steinmetz
• Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme by Chris Roberts
• Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words by Barbara Wallraff
• Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? by David Feldman
• The American Language by H. L. Mencken
• More Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean
• Miracle of Language by Richard Lederer
• Amo, amas, amat, and more: How to use Latin to your own… by Eugene Ehrlich
• Unfortunate English: The Gloomy Truth Behind the Words You… by William Brohaugh
• Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky
• The Wordsworth Book of Intriguing Words (Wordsworth… by Paul Hellweg
• The Foolish Dictionary by GIDEON WURDZ
• Remarkable Words with Astonishing Origins by John Train
• In Other Words by Christopher J. Moore
• 1811 dictionary of the vulgar tongue;: A dictionary of… by Francis Grose
• Womanwords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Patriarchal Society by Jane Mills
• Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of… by John H. McWhorter
• It's Greek to Me by Michael Macrone
• Words Words Words by David Crystal
• The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis
• Roger's Profanisaurus by Viz
• The phrase-dropper's handbook by John T Beaudouin
• Wicked Words (Horrible Histories Special) by Terry Deary
• Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing… by Erin McKean
• Straight from the Fridge, Dad: A Dictionary of Hipster… by Max Decharne
• Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers
• A Passion For Books by Harold Rabinowitz
• What's in a Name?: Reflections of an Irrepressible Name… by Paul Dickson
• More Joy of Lex by Gyles Brandreth
• 1000 Most Challenging Words by Norman W. Schur
• When a Loose Cannon Flogs a Dead Horse There's the Devil to… by Olivia A. Isil
• Common Phrases: And Where They Come From by Myron Korach
• The Write Way: The S.P.E.L.L. Guide to Real-Life Writing… by Richard Lederer
• Marvelous Monikers: The People Behind More Than 400 Words… by Tad Tuleja
• An Avalanche of Anoraks by Robert J. White
• Hue and Cry and Humble Pie: The Stories Behind the Words… by Morton S. Freeman
• Melba Toast, Bowie's Knife & Caesar's Wife: A Dictionary of… by Martin H. Manser
• Poplollies and Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words by Susan Kelz Sperling
• Have a Word on Me: A Celebration of Language by Willard R. Espy
• Toujours Tingo by Adam Jacot de Boinod
• Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C. C. Bombaugh
• Ladyfingers & Nun's Tummies: A Lighthearted Look at How… by Martha Barnette
• Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations on the… by Kate Burridge
• What's the Good Word? by William Safire
• Slang! Topic by Topic Dictionary of Contemporary American… by Paul Dickson
• Rhyming Cockney Slang by Jack Jones
• Slayer Slang: A Buffy The Vampire Slayer Lexicon by Michael Adams
• The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
• Idiom's Delight by Sue Brock
• Nil Desperandum - Carpe Hunc Librum: Dictionary of Latin… by Eugene Ehrlich
• Veni, Vidi, Vici: Conquer Your Enemies, Impress Your… by Eugene H. Ehrlich
• British English A to ZEd (The Facts on File Writer's… by Norman W. Schur
• Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English… by Mary Daly
• Going nucular : language, politics, and culture in… by Geoffrey Nunberg
• Shakespeare's Bawdy by Eric Partridge
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco