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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words By Jenni Nuttall Cover Image
$29.00
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Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms By Anatoly Liberman Cover Image
$22.95
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Kingdom of Characters (Pulitzer Prize Finalist): The Language Revolution That Made China Modern By Jing Tsu Cover Image
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts By Silvia Ferrara, Todd Portnowitz (Translated by) Cover Image
By Silvia Ferrara, Todd Portnowitz (Translated by)
$19.00
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The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language By Ilan Stavans (Editor) Cover Image
By Ilan Stavans (Editor)
$35.00
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think By Caleb Everett Cover Image
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The United States of English: The American Language from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century By Rosemarie Ostler Cover Image
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The Illustrated Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language By Mark Forsyth Cover Image
$40.00
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme--And Other Oddities of the English Language By Arika Okrent, Sean O'Neill (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Arika Okrent, Sean O'Neill (Illustrator)
$19.95
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Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language By James Griffiths Cover Image
$17.95
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That’s the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of Punch By David Crystal Cover Image
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The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate By Martin Puchner Cover Image
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