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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way (Paperback)
by (shelved 813 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 � 43,374 ratings � published 1990
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 769 times as language)
avg rating 4.01 � 22,267 ratings � published 1994
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 701 times as language)
avg rating 3.87 � 105,975 ratings � published 2003
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (Paperback)
by (shelved 530 times as language)
avg rating 4.08 � 12,151 ratings � published 2014
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 501 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 � 7,131 ratings � published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 427 times as language)
avg rating 3.84 � 120,234 ratings � published 1998
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 416 times as language)
avg rating 4.23 � 11,970 ratings � published 2011
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 407 times as language)
avg rating 4.05 � 12,189 ratings � published 2019
The Elements of Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 383 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 � 86,096 ratings � published 1918
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as language)
avg rating 4.06 � 3,044 ratings � published 2005
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as language)
avg rating 4.22 � 3,962 ratings � published 2005
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 350 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 � 11,127 ratings � published 2007
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as language)
avg rating 3.83 � 7,081 ratings � published 2008
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as language)
avg rating 4.00 � 3,174 ratings � published 2001
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 284 times as language)
avg rating 4.19 � 9,009 ratings � published 2017
In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 278 times as language)
avg rating 4.10 � 2,936 ratings � published 2009
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 � 15,747 ratings � published 1994
Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
by (shelved 261 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 � 6,700 ratings � published 1980
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 242 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 � 4,542 ratings � published 2014
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 240 times as language)
avg rating 3.82 � 105,709 ratings � published 2021
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 226 times as language)
avg rating 3.66 � 5,690 ratings � published 2014
The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as language)
avg rating 3.94 � 5,075 ratings � published 2003
Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 215 times as language)
avg rating 3.77 � 2,752 ratings � published 2011
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as language)
avg rating 4.24 � 25,129 ratings � published 2019
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 205 times as language)
avg rating 4.04 � 9,028 ratings � published 2014
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as language)
avg rating 3.79 � 3,988 ratings � published 2018
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 � 1,974 ratings � published 2015
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as language)
avg rating 4.36 � 7,104 ratings � published 2013
The Story of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as language)
avg rating 4.09 � 2,384 ratings � published 1986
Wheelock's Latin (Paperback)
by (shelved 158 times as language)
avg rating 4.13 � 1,778 ratings � published 1956
Words and Rules (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as language)
avg rating 3.91 � 1,912 ratings � published 1999
Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still (Like, Literally)
by (shelved 155 times as language)
avg rating 4.14 � 1,912 ratings � published 2016
The Story of English in 100 Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as language)
avg rating 3.92 � 2,492 ratings � published 2011
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 � 3,726 ratings � published 2007
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as language)
avg rating 4.16 � 381,332 ratings � published 2022
The Stories of English (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as language)
avg rating 4.05 � 1,420 ratings � published 2004
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 � 9,202 ratings � published 2019
The Story of Human Language (Audio CD)
by (shelved 138 times as language)
avg rating 4.40 � 3,039 ratings � published 2004
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter � Then, Now, and Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 135 times as language)
avg rating 3.95 � 4,064 ratings � published 2021
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as language)
avg rating 3.54 � 1,468 ratings � published 2012
The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as language)
avg rating 4.18 � 385 ratings � published 1943
The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 � 1,399 ratings � published 2014
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as language)
avg rating 3.99 � 5,191 ratings � published 2003
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as language)
avg rating 4.34 � 308,106 ratings � published 2000
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as language)
avg rating 3.73 � 1,046 ratings � published 2007
Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 123 times as language)
avg rating 3.97 � 5,850 ratings � published 2008
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 122 times as language)
avg rating 3.95 � 2,495 ratings � published 2012
In Other Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as language)
avg rating 3.74 � 15,227 ratings � published 2015
How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as language)
avg rating 3.86 � 1,301 ratings � published 2006
A Little Book of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 113 times as language)
avg rating 3.75 � 2,231 ratings � published 2012
“English did not just borrow words from other languages; it was stuffed to the brim with foreign influences, a Frankenstein vernacular. And Robin found it incredible, how this country, whose citizens prided themselves so much on being better than the rest of the world, could not make it through an afternoon tea without borrowed goods.”
― Babel
― Babel
“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
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all else is poor translation.”
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