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ByDavid Salo
2004 • 6 Readers
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2014 • 7 Readers • 2.5
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2019 • 263 Readers • 338 pages • 4.1
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Beowulf: A New Translation
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Dent's Modern Tribes
BySusie Dent
2016 • 3 Readers • 336 pages
Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
ByNicholas Ostler
2005 • 9 Readers • 615 pages • 3.3
Language, Resistance and Revival: Republican Prisoners and the Irish Language in the North of Ireland
ByFeargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh
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Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words
ByJosefa Heifetz Byrne
1960 • 2 Readers • 242 pages
Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
ByOrrin W. Robinson
1992 • 2 Readers • 308 pages
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
ByMark Twain
1882 • 18 Readers • 6 pages • 3.8
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ByFitzedward Hall
1 Reader
Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore
ByElizabeth Mary Wright
1 Reader
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
ByVerlyn Flieger(Editor)
1983 • 4 Readers • 230 pages
The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building
ByDavid J. Peterson
2015 • 8 Readers • 3.5
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
ByMark Forsyth
2011 • 18 Readers • 288 pages • 3.6
The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind
BySteven Pinker
1994 • 148 Readers • 506 pages • 3.9
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The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth
ByRuth S. Noel
1974 • 10 Readers • 218 pages • 3
The Last Word
ByThomas Nagel
1997 • 2 Readers • 164 pages
The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
ByBill Bryson
1990 • 11 Readers • 3.3
The Painted Word
ByTom Wolfe
1975 • 17 Readers • 128 pages • 3.7
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
ByPeter Gilliver, E.S.C. Weiner, Jeremy Marshall
1 Reader
The Singer of Tales
ByAlbert Bates Lord
1 Reader
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
BySteven Pinker
2007 • 68 Readers • 524 pages • 3.6
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
ByBenjamin K. Bergen
2016 • 24 Readers • 271 pages • 4.4
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
ByKory Stamper
2017 • 121 Readers • 296 pages • 4.4
Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language
BySteven Pinker
1999 • 6 Readers • 384 pages • 4