Good Books for Word Geeks

Descrição
Books for people who love things to say what they mean.
1
1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
de Francis Grose
340 membros
7 resenhas
3.8
4 Members
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2
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
de Lynne Truss
15,694 membros
334 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
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3
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
de Ammon Shea
836 membros
36 resenhas
½ 3.7
3 Members
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5
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
de H. L. Mencken
710 membros
3 resenhas
½ 4.5
3 Members
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6
The Superior Person's Book of Words
de Peter Bowler
1,115 membros
5 resenhas
½ 3.6
2 Members
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7
Mind the Gaffe: The Penguin Guide to Common Errors in English
de R. L. Trask
205 membros
1 resenha
4.1
2 Members
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8
Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases
de Andrew Delahunty
35 membros
½ 4.5
2 Members
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9
Larpers and Shroomers: The Language Report
de Susie Dent
54 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.6
2 Members
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11
Talking Dirty: A Bawdy Compendium of Colorful Language, Humorous Insults & Wicked Jokes
de Reinhold Aman
17 membros
½ 3.5
2 Members
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12
Dunces, Gourmands & Petticoats (Artful Wordsmith Series)
de Adrian Room
20 membros
½ 3.5
2 Members
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13
Shallow Water Dictionary
de John Stilgoe
50 membros
1 resenha
½ 4.3
2 Members
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14
A Dictionary of Hiberno-English
de Terence Patrick Dolan
58 membros
½ 4.3
Member
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15
Passing English of the Victorian era: a dictionary of heterodox English, slang and phrase
de J. Redding Ware
31 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.3
Member
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16
Woe Is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English
de Patricia T. O'Conner
2,518 membros
19 resenhas
3.9
Member
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