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    • The Biography of a Language
    • By: Melvyn Bragg
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,924 ratings
    • This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....

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    • A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
    • By: Mark Forsyth
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,391 ratings
    • The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language....

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    • The Untold History of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,032 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
    • By: Joseph Twadell Shipley
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 36 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence....

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    • Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
    • By: Jabari Asim
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 310 ratings
    • In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the uses and implications of that epithet....

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    • Confessions of Comma Queen
    • By: Mary Norris
    • Narrated by: Mary Norris
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-06-15
    • Language: English
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    • Between You & Me features Norris' laugh-out-loud descriptions of some of the most common and vexing problems in spelling, punctuation, and usage....

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    • A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
    • By: Mark Forsyth
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 400 ratings
    • The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them....

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    • Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist
    • By: Julian Burnside
    • Narrated by: James Millar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • A bonzer (p. 288) discussion of the strange but dinkum (p. 289) pedigree (p. 224) of the naughty (p. 202), nice (p. 212), and, sometimes, obscene (p. 217) English language....

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    • The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
    • By: Cecelia Watson
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • A pause-resisting, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark....

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    • Secrets of the Perfect Turn of Phrase
    • By: Mark Forsyth
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
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    • In an age unhealthily obsessed with the power of substance, this is a book that highlights the importance of style....

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    • By: Lee Child
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human....

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    • How Early Americans Pioneered Their Own Brand of English
    • By: Rosemarie Ostler
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
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    • Splendiferous Speech explores the main sources of the American vernacular - the expanding western frontier, the bumptious world of politics, and the pages of popular 19th-century newspapers. It's a process that started with the earliest English colonists and is still going strong....

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    • A Day in the Life of the English Language
    • By: Simon Horobin
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
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    • Simon Horobin takes the listener on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly fascinating histories....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....

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    • English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 966 ratings
    • Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic....

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    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place....

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    • Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
    • By: Susie Dent
    • Narrated by: Susie Dent
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-20
    • Language: English
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    • Lexicographer and all-round word expert Susie Dent is a national treasure. The listener can discover a curious coinage or a fascinating etymological fact for every day of a full year....

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    • Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words
    • By: Kevin Hall
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • We live our lives word by word - to build our relationships, to convey our points of view, to object to wrongs done to us or to others, to comfort our children and our friends....

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