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Wordhunter
Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words
Мова-меч. Як говорила радянська імперія
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
Latim em pó: Um passeio pela formação do nosso português
Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning
How Stella Learned to Talk: The Groundbreaking Story of the World's First Talking Dog
The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds
Translating Myself and Others
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology
Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
Le ragioni del dubbio: L'arte di usare le parole
Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language
Żeńska końcówka języka
The Philosophy of Translation
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
Luka. Jak wstyd i lęk dziurawią nam język
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
Чути українською
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
Suppose a Sentence
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
Magic Words
Battle of the Linguist Mages
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Fifty Sounds
How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You
Grammar for a Full Life: How the Ways We Shape a Sentence Can Limit or Enlarge Us
Et Cetera: An Illustrated Guide to Latin Phrases
The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together the Six-Million-Year Story of How Words Evolved
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary
A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
Som dones, som lingüistes, som moltes i diem prou
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!
Così non schwa. Limiti ed eccessi del linguaggio inclusivo
Перемагати українською. Про мову ненависті й любові
The Lost Language
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What’s Left Unsaid (Bad Arguments)
This Is the Voice
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases
The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
العرنجية
The Cabinet of Calm: Soothing Words for Troubled Times
Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
Handbok för språkpoliser
The Language Warrior's Manifesto
Irony and Sarcasm
The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask
The Hidden History of Coined Words
The Secrets of Words
Sorry, Sorry, Sorry: The Case for Good Apologies
Essays Two
Języczni. Co język robi naszej głowie
Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy, Feisty, and All the Other Words That Are Used to Undermine Women
Dancing On Ropes
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation
Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate
Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
Hyphen (Object Lessons)
You Talkin' To Me?: The Unruly History of New York English (The Dialects of North America)
El castellà, la llengua del costat
The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language
You're All Talk

David Foster Wallace
...we live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux. ...more
David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays

Arika Okrent
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave, or what its creations should look like, but to describe those creations in all their messy glory and try to figure out what they can teach us about life, the world, and, especially in the case of linguistics, the workings of the human mind.
Arika Okrent, In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

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