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The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss
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by Anne Curzan
Published Mar 2025
Read ReviewsA kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Curzan
by David Bellos
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsFunny and surprising on every page, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? offers readers new insight into the mystery of how we come to know what someone else means - whether we wish to understand Astérix cartoons or a foreign head of state.
by Simon Garfield
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsA hugely entertaining and revealing guide to the history of type that asks, What does your favorite font say about you?
Grammar Snobs Are Great Big Meanies
by June Casagrande
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsThe antidote to Eats, Shoots and Leaves - an uproarious and very American language book for those who are tired of getting pulled over by the grammar police
by Simon Winchester
Published Oct 2004
Read ReviewsA scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the Oxford English Dictionary. Browse an exclusive excerpt at BookBrowse.
by David Sacks
Published Aug 2004
Read ReviewsA fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet, and into cultural history with twenty-six fact-filled "biographies" of letters A through Z.
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