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The Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson  
From Powells.com "Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us....Bryson's book, Mother Tongue...is the one that convinced me he could probably write informatively and with humor about anything. I mean, who...
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Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning
by Sol Steinmetz Publisher Comments A fun, new approach to examining etymology! Many common English words started out with an entirely different meaning than the one we know today. For example: The word adamant came into English around 855 C.E. as a synonym for 'diamond,' very different...
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100 Words to Make You Sound Great (100 Words)
by Ahd (edt) Editors Publisher Comments 100 Words to Make You Sound Great showcases 100 words illustrated by quotations that are historic, moving, insightful, humorous, and fun to read. The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries have carefully selected them as evidence that it pays to...
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Forgotten English
by Jeffrey Kacirk Publisher Comments Have you ever sent a message via scandaroon, needed a nimgimmer, or fallen victim to bowelhive? Never heard of these terms? That's because they are a thing of the past. These words are alive and well, however, in Forgotten English, a charming collection...
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Words, Words, Words (06 Edition)
by David Crystal Publisher Comments "Lexicography is not just an exercise in linguistic accounting," writes preeminent English language scholar David Crystal in this exceptionally lively and erudite little book. "It is a voyage of lexical exploration and discovery." In Words, Words, Words,...
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By Hook or by Crook
by David Crystal Synopsis In this delightful excursion through the English language, Crystal combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and a traveler's observations to create a mesmerizing and entertaining narrative account with the language and its speakers....
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America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America
by Allan Metcalf Publisher Comments This book presents a unique historical view of American English. It chronicles year by year the contributions Americans have made to the vocabulary of English and the words Americans have embraced through the evolution of the nation. For important years...
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Made in America
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr...
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Keywords : a Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Rev 83 Edition)
by Raymond Williams Publisher Comments Now revised to include new words and updated essays, Keywords focuses on the sociology of language, demonstrating how the key words we use to understand our society take on new meanings and how these changes reflect the political bent and values of...
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The Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate
by Eugene Ehrlich Publisher Comments Between TV talk shows, radio call-in programs, email and the Internet, spontaneous-talk media has skyrocketed in the '90s. People are interacting more frequently and more fervently than ever before, turning the English language into an indecipherable...
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
by David Crystal Publisher Comments English is arguably the nearest thing we have to a world language, and yet it is a language with a wealth of varieties, dialects, and traditions, all developing in different ways and at different speeds. This book is a superbly written and illustrated...
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The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
by Karen Elizab Gordon Publisher Comments With her signature cache of illustrations and flamboyantly gothic examples, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, "who has achieved cult status with her whimsical references, defines an array of daffy, delicious words" ("Library Journal). Taking a hedonist's approach...
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Words of a Feather
by Murray Suid Publisher Comments Dazzle your friends and family with your knowledge of word origins! What's the connection between maneuver and manure? Between glamour and grammar? Anger and angina? At first glance, these words seem to have nothing in common, but in fact they are Words...
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Death Sentences: How Cliches, Weasel Words and Management - Speak Are Strangling Public Language
by Don Watson Publisher Comments A brilliant and scathing polemic about the sorry state of the English Language andwhat we can — and must — do about it. When was the last time you heard a politician use words that rang with truth and meaning? Do your eyes glaze over when...
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Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins
by Michael Quinion Publisher Comments The cat's pajamas, the bee's knees, and the whole nine yards rolled into one, this true feast for word lovers skewers commonly accepted word-origin myths and etymological folktales. Writing with flair and authority, word maven and Oxford English...
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Six Words You Never Knew Had Something to Do with Pigs: And Other Fascinating Facts about the English Language
by Katherine Barber Publisher Comments A delightfully addictive compendium of fascinating word facts that does for the dictionary what Eats, Shoots, and Leaves did for the manual of style With the easy erudition and lively wit that have won her legions of fans, Canadas Word Lady reveals the...
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Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism Into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show
by Geoffrey Nunberg
Publisher Comments Geoffrey Nunberg breaks new ground with this fierce and funny narrative of how the political right has ushered in a new world order, aided unwittingly by the liberal media. Democrats are well known for their "lousy bumper stickers," as Joe Klein puts it....
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Words Fail Me
by Teresa Monachino Synopsis - A witty and amusing handbook to the contradictions and inconsistencies of the English language - With imaginative use of typography Words Fail Me highlights tricky words, inconsistent spellings, misleading pronunciation and other quirky characteristics...
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2000 Most Challenging Obscure Words
by Norman Schur Synopsis This collection offers a rich sampling of unfamiliar and strange words in theEnglish language and their definitions....
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Fallacies and Pitfalls of Language
by S Morris Engel Publisher Comments Witty, thought-provoking exploration of government newspeak, exaggerated advertising claims, propaganda and other misuses of language — and how to combat them....
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