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• The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
• Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to… by Lynne Truss
• How Language Works by David Crystal
• The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker
• The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg
• The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
• Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley
• Miracle of Language by Richard Lederer
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal
• Words and Rules by Steven Pinker
• Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
• The Unfolding of Language by Guy Deutscher
• Made in America by Bill Bryson
• The Story of English by Robert McCrum
• Language Myths by Laurie Bauer
• The Stories of English by David Crystal
• They Have a Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of… by Howard Rheingold
• The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
• Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
• The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from… by Adam Jacot de Boinod
• Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition by S. I. Hayakawa
• Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon… by Richard Lederer
• How to Learn Any Language by Barry Farber
• Going nucular : language, politics, and culture in… by Geoffrey Nunberg
• Forgotten English by Jeffrey Kacirk
• Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the Alphabet… by David Sacks
• Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
• An Introduction to Language by Victoria Fromkin
• An Exaltation of Larks: or, The Venereal Game by James Lipton
• The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What… by Diane Ravitch
• Japanese for Busy People I: Text by AJALT
• The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
• The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever… by Jeffrey Kacirk
• The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal
• Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in… by Stefan Fatsis
• The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler
• Amo, amas, amat, and more: How to use Latin to your own… by Eugene Ehrlich
• Serendipities: Language and Lunacy by Umberto Eco
• Crazy English by Richard Lederer
• Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a… by Steven Poole
• The Transitive Vampire by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
• Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music… by John McWhorter
• Collins Gem Latin Dictionary: Second Edition by D. A. Kidd
• Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea
• The American Language by H. L. Mencken
• Le Ton Beau De Marot by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Alpha Beta: How 26 Letters Shaped the Western World by John Man
• French-English, English-French Dictionary (Gem… by Pierre-Henri Cousin
• Wheelock's Latin by Frederic M. Wheelock
• 501 French Verbs by Christopher Kendris
• Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and… by Kitty Burns Florey
• Latin for All Occasions by Henry Beard
• Teach Yourself Gaelic Complete Course by Boyd Robertson
• 501 Spanish Verbs by Christopher Kendris
• Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in… by Patricia T. O'Conner
• The New Well Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for… by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• Learn Latin by Peter Jones
• The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth by Ruth S. Noel
• Collins English Dictionary by Patrick Hanks
• Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary by Merriam-Webster
• The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word… by Leonard Shlain
• Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco
• The Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily… by Eugene Ehrlich
• The Oxford Companion to the English Language by Tom McArthur
• A Guide to Old English by Bruce Mitchell
• Accomodating Brocolli in the Cemetary by Vivian Cook
• Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
• 501 German Verbs by Henry Strutz
• The University of Chicago Spanish - English English -… by Carlos Castillo
• Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus by Barbara Ann Kipfer
• The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten
• Random House Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary by Seigo Nakao
• Bantam New College Spanish & English Dictionary by Edwin B. Williams
• Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (Student Edition) by Tracy D. Terrell
• Lost Languages by Andrew Robinson
• Oxymoronica: Paradoxical Wit & Wisdom From History's… by Mardy Grothe
• Harper Collins French Dictionary/French-English… by HarperCollins
• Collins Gem Dictionary, German-English English-German by J. M. Clark
• Roget's College Thesaurus in Dictionary Form, The New… by Philip D. Morehead
• Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than… by John Ayto
• Usage and Abusage: A Guide to Good English by Eric Partridge
• Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod Folge 1 by Bastian Sick
• Bantam New College French and English Dictionary (Bantam… by Roger J. Steiner
• Slayer Slang: A Buffy The Vampire Slayer Lexicon by Michael Adams
• The Highly Selective Dictionary For The Extraordinarily… by Eugene Ehrlich
• Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme by Chris Roberts
• The Bantam New College Latin & English Dictionary by John C. Traupman
• Talk to the Hand by Lynne Truss
• Concise Oxford English Dictionary by H. W. Fowler
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk
• You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation by Deborah Tannen
• The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our… by Karen Elizabeth Gordon
• A History of the English Language by Albert C. Baugh
• Harper Collins German Dictionary/German-English… by Peter Terrell
• Roget's International Thesaurus (Harper Colophon Books) by Peter Mark Roget
• Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of… by Jr., Roy Blount
• Langenscheidt's Pocket German Dictionary by Langenscheidt
• A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler
• Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson's… by Henry Hitchings
• French / English Dictionary by Marguerite-Marie Dubois
• The New Fowler's Modern English Usage by H. W. Fowler
• Lapsing Into a Comma : A Curmudgeon's Guide to the Many… by Bill Walsh
• A Hog on Ice by Charles Earle Funk
• The New Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form by Norman Lewis
• Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin by Nicholas Ostler
• Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff
• Webster's New World Thesaurus by Charlton Laird
• Genes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
• Descriptionary: A Thematic Dictionary; 2nd Edition by Marc McCutcheon
• Do You Speak American? by Robert MacNeil
• Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks
• Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its… by Michael Wex
• The Story of Language by Mario Pei
• The American Heritage College Dictionary by Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries
• Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner
• Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek: Book I by Maurice Balme
• Workbook for Wheelock's Latin by Paul T. Comeau
• The Elements of Style, Third Edition by William Jr. Strunk
• Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction by William O'Grady
• HarperCollins Spanish Dictionary:… by Colin Smith
• Why Do We Say It: The Stories Behind the Words, Expressions… by Frank Oppel
• Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense by Suzette Haden Elgin
• The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a… by David Abram
• The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams
• Roget's Pocket Thesaurus by C. O. Sylvester Mawson
• The King's English by H. W. Fowler
• The Elements of Style Illustrated by William Strunk Jr.
• 501 Latin Verbs by Richard E. Prior
• Cassell's Latin Dictionary by D. P. Simpson
• The Complete Plain Words by Ernest Gowers
• The Synonym Finder by J. I. Rodale
• Webster's New World Dictionary by David B. Guralnik
• Port Out, Starboard Home by Michael Quinion
• Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure
• On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
• The Compact Oxford English Dictionary by E. S. C. Weiner
• Language, Truth and Logic by A. J. Ayer
• Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis
• Word Myths, Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends by David Wilton
• Irish: A Complete Course for Beginners (Teach Yourself) by Diarmuid O Se
• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language by Houghton Mifflin Company
• The Joy of Signing: The Illustrated Guide for Mastering… by Lottie L. Riekehof
• Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the… by George Lakoff
• The Study of Language by George Yule
• Webster's third new international dictionary of the English… by Philip Babcock Gove
• Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose by Constance Hale
• The Elements of Grammar by Margaret Shertzer
• The shorter Oxford English dictionary by William Little
• Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary by Merriam-Webster
• The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
• Thereby Hangs a Tale by Charles Earle Funk
• Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies: A Guide to Language… by June Casagrande
• On Writing Well by William Zinsser
• Red Herrings and White Elephants by Albert Jack
• Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society by Peter Trudgill
• The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code by Lesley Adkins
• The Decipherment of Linear B by John Chadwick
• Orality and Literacy (New Accents) by Walter J. Ong
• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
• Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace (7th Edition) by Joseph M. Williams
• The Little, Brown Handbook by Jane E. Aaron
• The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous… by Peter Bowler
• Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
• X-treme Latin by Henry Beard
• Wicked French (Wicked) by Howard Tomb
• The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco
• The Merriam Webster Thesaurus by Merriam-Webster
• The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams
• The Elements of Editing: A Modern Guide for Editors and… by Arthur Plotnik
• Merde!: The Real French You Were Never Taught at School by Geneviève
• Random House Webster's Word Menu by Stephen Glazier
• Get Thee to a Punnery by Richard Lederer
• The Story of French by Jean-Benoit Nadeau
• Teach Yourself Linguistics by Jean Aitchison
• Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Latin for Even More Occasions by Henry Beard
• Webster's New World College Dictionary by Michael E. Agnes
• French Phrasebook by Marie-Helene Girard
• Speak: A Short History of Languages by Tore Janson
• Arabic-English Dictionary: The Hans Wehr Dictionary of… by Hans Wehr
• Dictionary of Cliches by James Rogers
• Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life by Jeremy Campbell
• The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary by Merriam-Webster
• Who Put Butter in Butterfly...and Other Fearless… by David Feldman
• Mouse or Rat by Umberto Eco
• Latin: A Complete Course (Teach Yourself) by Gavin Betts
• The Chicago Manual of Style by Chicago Editorial Staff
• Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• The English Language by David Crystal
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
• Complete Guide to Conjugating 12000 French Verbs by Bescherelle
• Heavens to Betsy!: And Other Curious Sayings by Charles Earle Funk
• The Merriam-Webster Dictionary by Merriam-Webster
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
• Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy
• The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the… by Terrence Deacon
• Origins and Development of the English Language by Thomas Pyles
• The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins… by Robert Hendrickson
• Concise Dictionary of English Etymology (Wordsworth… by Walter W. Skeat
• The English Language: A Historical introduction by C.L. Barber
• Random House Webster's College Dictionary by Dictionary
• The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Elizabeth M. Knowles
• A Writer's Reference by Diana Hacker
• On language by William Safire
• More Anguished English: an Expose of Embarrassing… by Richard Lederer
• Harbrace College Handbook by John C. Hodges
• The Story of Writing by Andrew Robinson
• That's Not What I Meant! by Deborah Tannen
• How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphics; A Step-by-Step Guide to… by Mark Collier
• MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers by Joseph Gibaldi
• The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
• On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
• Larousse Pocket Dictionary: French-English/English-French by Larousse
• The Associated Press Style Book And Libel Manual by Associated Press
• Learning Irish: An Introductory Self-Tutor by Micheal O'Siadhail
• The Joy of Lex: How to Have Fun With 860,341,500 Words by Gyles Brandreth
• A Course in Phonetics by Peter Ladefoged
• Japanese Phrasebook by Yoshi Abe
• English Grammar for Students of French: The Study Guide for… by Jacqueline Morton
• Word Origins: A Classic Exploration of Words and Language by Wilfred Funk
• Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida
• The Careful Writer by Theodore M. Bernstein
• A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially English by Anthony Burgess
• English as She Is Spoke: Being a Comprehensive Phrasebook… by José da Fonseca
• Esperanto by John Cresswell
• Cassell's French & English Dictionary by J. H. Douglas
• Practical English Usage by Michael Swan
• The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and… by David Crystal
• The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar by Mark C. Baker
• Making Sense of Japanese: What the Textbooks Don't Tell You… by Jay Rubin
• Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya with DVDs: A… by Kristen Brustad
• By Hook or By Crook by David Crystal
• Oxford Latin Course, Part I (2nd edition) by Maurice Balme
• Lost for Words: The Mangling and Manipulating of the… by John Humphrys
• The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and… by Sister Miriam Joseph
• Blue & Brown Books by Ludwig Wittgenstein
• A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and… by Kate L. Turabian
• Between You and I: A Little Book of Bad English by James Cochrane
• Reading Latin: Text by P. V. Jones
• A Natural History of Latin by Tore Janson
• Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English… by Random House Value Publishing
• Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
• Collins Gem Italian Dictionary by HarperCollins
• The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage by Kingsley Amis
• Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work by Deborah Tannen