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• Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon… by Richard Lederer
• English as She Is Spoke: Being a Comprehensive Phrasebook… by José da Fonseca
• More Anguished English: an Expose of Embarrassing… by Richard Lederer
• Get Thee to a Punnery by Richard Lederer
• Latin for All Occasions by Henry Beard
• The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten
• Crazy English by Richard Lederer
• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
• How to insult, abuse & insinuate in classical Latin by Michelle Lovric
• Wicked French (Wicked) by Howard Tomb
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to… by Lynne Truss
• X-treme Latin by Henry Beard
• The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams
• The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
• The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler
• Latin for Even More Occasions by Henry Beard
• Made in America by Bill Bryson
• The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax and Other Irreverent… by Geoffrey K. Pullum
• Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames by Ormonde De Kay
• Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit & Wisdom From History's… by Mardy Grothe
• French for Cats: All the French Your Cat Will Ever Need by Henry Beard
• The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams
• The Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
• Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
• Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod by Bastian Sick
• On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
• Advanced French for Exceptional Cats by Henry Beard
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• Yiddish with Dick and Jane by Ellis Weiner
• The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our… by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for… by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit by Wayne F. Hill
• Sniglets (Snig'lit : Any Word That Doesn't Appear in the… by Rich Hall
• Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its… by Michael Wex
• Scheisse: The Real German You Were Never Taught in School by Gertrude Besserwisser
• Wicked Italian (Wicked) by Howard Tomb
• How to Talk Minnesotan: A Visitor's Guide by Howard Mohr
• English as a Second F*cking Language: How to Swear… by Sterling Johnson
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a… by Lynne Truss
• Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of… by Jr., Roy Blount
• The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower
• Wicked Japanese For The Business Traveler by Howard Tomb
• The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous… by Peter Bowler
• The Revenge of Anguished English: More Accidental Assaults… by Richard Lederer
• The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition by Eric S. Raymond
• Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from… by Mark Liberman
• Adventures of a Verbivore by Richard Lederer
• Heavens to Betsy!: And Other Curious Sayings by Charles Earle Funk
• They Have a Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of… by Howard Rheingold
• Merde!: The Real French You Were Never Taught at School by Geneviève
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Wicked Spanish (Wicked) by Howard Tomb
• The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers,… by Richard Lederer
• The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leonard Q. Ross
• The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from… by Adam Jacot de Boinod
• Who Put Butter in Butterfly...and Other Fearless… by David Feldman
• Almanac of Words at Play by Willard R. Espy
• Here Speeching American: A Very Strange Guide to English as… by Kathryn Petras
• Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language… by June Casagrande
• The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun With 860,341,500 Words by Gyles Brandreth
• Wicked German (Wicked Travel Series) by Howard Tomb
• Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
• Eats, Shites & Leaves: Crap English and How to Use It by A. Parody
• An Exaltation of Larks: or, The Venereal Game by James Lipton
• Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod. Folge 2: Neues aus dem… by Bastian Sick
• Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable… by Nancy Mitford
• The Wonderful O by James Thurber
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The Play of Words by Richard Lederer
• A Hog on Ice by Charles Earle Funk
• The Portable Curmudgeon by Jon Winokur
• Merde Encore!: Genevieve by Geneviève
• Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary by Vivian Cook
• More Sniglets: Any Word That Doesn't Appear in the… by Rich Hall
• Brit-Think, Ameri-Think: A Transatlantic Survival Guide,… by Jane Walmsley
• Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many… by Bill Walsh
• Forgotten English by Jeffrey Kacirk
• Hooray for Yiddish: A Book About English by Leo Calvin Rosten
• Thereby Hangs a Tale by Charles Earle Funk
• Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
• The Elephants of Style : A Trunkload of Tips on the Big… by Bill Walsh
• Junk English by Ken Smith
• Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in… by Patricia T. O'Conner
• Son of It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (Bulwer-Lytton… by Scott Rice
• Miracle of Language by Richard Lederer
• Mierda!: The Real Spanish You Were Never Taught in School… by Frances De Talavera Berger
• Fumblerules by William Safire
• Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness: A Dictionarrative by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• Winnie Ille Pu by A. A. Milne
• A Civil Tongue by Edwin Newman
• British Phrasebook by Elizabeth Bartsch-Parker
• Thy Father Is a Gorbellied Codpiece: Create over 100,000 of… by Barry Kraft
• Making Out in Japanese by Todd Geers
• Wicked Irish by Howard Tomb
• The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis
• The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever… by Jeffrey Kacirk
• Fractured English by Richard Lederer
• Latin Quips at Your Fingertips by Rose Williams
• Amo, amas, amat, and more: How to use Latin to your own… by Eugene Ehrlich
• The Future Dictionary of America: a book to benefit… by Jordan, Ph.D. Bass
• The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily… by Eugene Ehrlich
• Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in… by Stefan Fatsis
• C D B! by William Steig
• Bizarre Books by Russell Ash
• Yiddish with George and Laura by Ellis Weiner
• It Was a Dark and Stormy Night: The Best (?) from the… by Scott Rice
• Misreadings by Umberto Eco
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Another Almanac of Words at Play by Willard R. Espy
• The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand
• The King Who Rained by Fred Gwynne
• The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-Bred Words by Peter Bowler
• How to Speak Southern by Steve Mitchell
• Merda!: The Real Italian You Were Never Taught in School by Roland Delicio
• Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
• Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas
• Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean
• Horsefeathers and other curious words by Charles E. Funk
• Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from… by Mardy Grothe
• The American Language by H. L. Mencken
• The Official Politically Correct Dictionary and Handbook by Christopher Cerf
• When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
• Brush Up Your Shakespeare! by Michael Macrone
• Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme by Chris Roberts
• The Lynne Truss Treasury: Columns and Three Comic Novels by Lynne Truss
• The Cunning Linguist: Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks,… by Richard Lederer
• Poplollies & Bellibones: A Celebration of Lost Words Along… by Susan Kelz Sperling
• Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
• Urban Dictionary: Fularious Street Slang Defined by urbandictionary.com
• How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Umberto Eco
• The War Between the Vowels and the Consonants by Priscilla Turner
• Dimboxes, Epopts, and Other Quidams: Words to Describe… by David Grambs
• The Evasion-English Dictionary by Maggie Balistreri
• Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and… by Kitty Burns Florey
• 1811 dictionary of the vulgar tongue;: A dictionary of… by Francis Grose
• Latin Can Be Fun: (Facetiae Latinae) by Georg Capellanus
• Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
• The Highly Selective Dictionary For The Extraordinarily… by Eugene Ehrlich
• Je ne Sais What? A Guide to de rigueur Frenglish for… by Jon Winokur
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Lost In Translation: Misadventures in English Abroad by Charlie Croker
• N'Heures Souris Rames by Ormonde De Kay
• Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky
• Jewish as a Second Language by Molly Katz
• Go Hang a Salami! I'm a Lasagna Hog!: and Other Palindromes by Jon Agee
• It's Greek to Me by Michael Macrone
• Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic by Elizabeth Little
• Pretty Good Joke Book 4th edition by Garrison Keillor
• The Official Rules by Paul Dickson
• At Wit's End by Erma Bombeck
• 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said by Ross Petras
• In Other Words by Christopher J. Moore
• Napalm & Silly Putty by George Carlin
• More Parts (Picture Puffins) by Tedd Arnold
• Brain Droppings by George Carlin
• Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book: A Primer for Adults Only by Shel Silverstein
• On language by William Safire
• Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy by Gavin Edwards
• Bride of Dark and Stormy (Bulwer-Lytton Contest) by Scott Rice
• Opperlandse taal- & letterkunde by Hugo Brandt Corstius
• When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin
• Going nucular : language, politics, and culture in… by Geoffrey Nunberg
• How to Talk American: A Guide to Our Native Tongues by James Marshall Crotty
• Chinglish by Oliver Lutz Radtke
• Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing… by Erin McKean
• Strictly Speaking by Edwin Newman
• New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer by Bill Maher
• Lonely Planet Signspotting (Lonely Planet Pictorial) by Doug Lansky
• Torn Wings and Faux Pas: A Flashbook of Style, a Beastly… by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• Le Petit Nicolas by René Goscinny
• The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and… by David Crystal
• Hes Got the Whole World in His Pants by Gavin Edwards
• Wicked Words: A Treasury of Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and… by Hugh Rawson
• Garfield Bigger Than Life by Jim Davis
• Expletive Deleted: A Good Look at Bad Language by Ruth Wajnryb
• Grunt: Pigorian Chant from Snouto Domoinko de Silo by Sandra Boynton
• Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington by Thomas Cathcart
• Latin for People : Latina Pro Populo by Alexander Humez
• The Best of Maledicta by Reinhold Aman
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• Learn Latin by Peter Jones
• Uncle Boris in the Yukon and Other Shaggy Dog Stories by Daniel Pinkwater
• Veni, Vidi, Vici: Conquer Your Enemies, Impress Your… by Eugene H. Ehrlich
• Outrageous Japanese: Slang, Curses & Epithets by Jack Seward
• Angry Young Sniglets (Snig'lit : Any Word That Doesn't… by Rich Hall
• The Portable Curmudgeon Redux by Jon Winokur
• British English a to Zed by Norman W. Schur
• All in the Timing: Fourteen Plays by David Ives
• The Word Detective: Solving the Mysteries Behind Those… by Evan Morris
• Watson's Dictionary of Weasel Words, Contemporary Cliches,… by Watson Don
• Straight Dope Tells All by Cecil Adams
• The leaning tower of Babel and other affronts by the… by Richard Mitchell
• Triumph of the Straight Dope by Cecil Adams
• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• More Making Out In Japanese (Yenbooks) by Todd Geers
• The Limerick by G. Legman
• The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex by Joshua Piven
• Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Latin by Natalie Harwood
• Motel of the mysteries by David Macaulay
• The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
• Postmodern Pooh by Frederick Crews
• Psmith in the City by P.G. Wodehouse
• When a Man Loves a Walnut by Gavin Edwards
• Word Myths, Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends by David Wilton
• Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English by James Cochrane
• Max and Moritz by Wilhelm Busch
• Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and… by Josefa Heifetz Byrne
• Le Ton Beau De Marot by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• The Book of Poisonous Quotes by Colin Jarman
• Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That: How to Become a Latin… by Harry Mount
• The Pooh Perplex by Frederick Crews
• How to Talk Dirty and Influence People by Lenny Bruce
• The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What… by Diane Ravitch
• The Wicked Traveler by Howard Tomb
• Don't Get Too Comfortable by David Rakoff
• I Always Look up the Word "Egregious" by Maxwell W. Nurnberg
• Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers
• Dermo!: The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used by Edward Topol
• Uh-Oh by Robert Fulghum
• The finer points of sausage dogs by Alexander McCall Smith
• Ring for Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
• Leaving Home by Garrison Keillor
• Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea
• Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
• The Best of Myles (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series) by Flann O'Brien
• The Mating Season by P.G. Wodehouse
• It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It by Robert Fulghum
• The Undutchables: An Observation of the Netherlands, Its… by Colin White
• Found: The Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from… by Davy Rothbart
• The Game of Words (R) by Willard R. Espy
• The Wordsworth Book of Intriguing Words (Wordsworth… by Paul Hellweg
• Aunts Aren't Gentlemen by P.G. Wodehouse
• C D C ? by William Steig
• Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk by Hugh Rawson
• Candide by Voltaire
• Much Obliged, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking… by Lewis Carroll
• At the villa of reduced circumstances by Alexander McCall Smith
• The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
• Slayer Slang: A Buffy The Vampire Slayer Lexicon by Michael Adams
• The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby
• Even More Parts by Tedd Arnold
• Why You Say It by Webb B. Garrison
• Joy in the Morning by P.G. Wodehouse
• Words Words Words by David Crystal