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A Guide to Language for Fun and Spite
by June Casagrande
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by Melvyn Bragg
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsAn enthralling story not only of power, religion, and trade but also of people and how they changed, and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English.
by Lynne Truss
Published Apr 2006
Read Reviews'Who would have thought a book about punctuation could cause such a sensation? Truss serves up a delightful, unabashedly strict and sometimes snobby little book, with cheery Britishisms dotting pages that express a more international righteous indignation.'
by A. J. Jacobs
Published Oct 2005
Read ReviewsPart memoir and part education (or lack thereof), The Know-It-All chronicles NPR contributor A.J. Jacobs's hilarious, enlightening, and seemingly impossible quest to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z.
by Anu Garg
Published Jan 2003
Read ReviewsWritten by the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day web site (www.wordsmith.org), this collection of unusual, obscure, and exotic English words will delight writers, scholars, crossword puzzlers, and word buffs of every ilk.
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