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The Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson
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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
by Michael Erard
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Construal
by Lyn Frazier
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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us
by James W Pennebaker
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You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
by Robert Lane Greene
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Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
by David Crystal
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Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages
by Elizabeth Little
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The Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Explorations in Linguistic Typology)
by R M W Dixon
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
by John Mcwhorter
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by Edwin L Battistella
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Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun
by Liza Bakewell
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