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Tag: words

Includes: words, Words, WORDS, words., words..., Words., WOrds, . words. — Translations: mots, woorden, Wörter, ord, riječi, palabras, parole, verba, słowa — Show details

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Frindle by Andrew Clements (104 times)
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester (97 times)
The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni (63 times)
Roget's International Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget (53 times)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss (53 times)
Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson (51 times)
The Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter Bowler (49 times)
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester (47 times)
The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus by Jen Bryant (45 times)
An Exaltation of Larks by James Lipton (44 times)
Max's Words by Kate Banks (44 times)
The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson (44 times)
Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever! by Richard Scarry (42 times)
Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fatsis (41 times)
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster (39 times)
They Have a Word for It: Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases by Howard Rheingold (38 times)
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (35 times)
The Word Collector by Peter H. Reynolds (34 times)
The Boy Who Loved Words by Roni Schotter (34 times)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (34 times)
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth (32 times)
The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten by Jeffrey Kacirk (32 times)
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn (32 times)
The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World by Adam Jacot de Boinod (29 times)
Dictionary of Word Origins: The Histories of More Than 8,000 English-Language Words by John Ayto (29 times)

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