It ain't necessarily so

It ain't necessarily so

By
Patricia T. O'Conner
Patricia T. O'Conner

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6 books

Language

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DJ Allan
Hot for Words: Answers to All Your Burning Questions About Words and Their Meanings
It ain't necessarily so
The Mother Tongue
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
The Aitch Factor: Adventures in Australian English

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161 books

Linguistics

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Spiritomb
How Dead Languages Work
Forbidden Words
Grammar and Gender
Language Myths
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

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25 books

History Of English

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Spiritomb
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language
Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle, and Early Modern English
Words in Time and Place: Exploring Language Through the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
Grammar and Gender
Word origins
The Story of English in 100 Words

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37 books

English Language

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Spiritomb
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left
Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
The Wordhord
The Mother Tongue