The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
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the use of profanity for effect to be a practice of the weak-minded
one of the most famous split infinitives ... To boldly go
English should not stoop to embrace the lowest common denominator. Rather, society should step up and grant the language the respect it deserves.
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The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way
The Elements of Style
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Politics and the English Language
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
The Art of Public Speaking
Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
Lingo: A Language Spotter's Guide to Europe
The Gadfly
The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
Stranger in a Strange Land
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
The Analects
Babel
King Lear
Churchill: The Power of Words
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Philosophical Investigations
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
Dead Poets Society
The Way of Kings
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
The Instructions
The Long Earth
The Power of One
The Weight of Words
The Names
Foundation
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Heretics
Embassytown
Babel-17
The Walking Drum
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
The Complete Essays
The 48 Laws of Power
Chanakya's Chant
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
The Word Exchange
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Coriolanus
Anthills of the Savannah
Jingo
Citizen: An American Lyric
Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
The A.B.C. Murders
The Penultimate Peril
Senlin Ascends