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• The Stories of English

  Crystal, David, 1941-

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• The Adventure of English

  the Biography of a Language

  Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-

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• Eats, Shoots & Leaves

  the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

  Truss, Lynne,

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• The Fascinating Origins of Everyday Words

  Room, Adrian

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• The Mother Tongue

  English & How It Got That Way

  Bryson, Bill

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• Origins of the Specious

  Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language

  O'Conner, Patricia T.

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• Highly Irregular

  Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme-and Other Oddities of the English Language

  Okrent, Arika,

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• That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means

  the 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories

  Petras, Kathryn,

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• Vulgar Tongues

  An Alternative History of English Slang

  Décharné, Max,

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• Made in America

  Bryson, Bill

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• Algospeak

  How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

  Aleksic, Adam,

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