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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 2,386 ratings
    • The Etymologicon is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language....

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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
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    • 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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    • 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 66 ratings
    • A pause-resisting, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: David Crystal
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-12
    • Language: English
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    • In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure, and the downright surprising....

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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
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    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • A History of Football Terminology
    • By: Timothy P. Brown
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • Hut! Hut! Hike! explores the history of football terminology by examining when and why more than 400 familiar words and expressions entered the ...

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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
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    • 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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    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-15
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
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    • Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day....

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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
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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • 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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    • An Old English Bestiary
    • By: Hana Videen
    • Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • Hana Videen presents a glittering Old English bestiary of animals real and imaginary, big and small, ordinary and extraordinary—the good, the bad, and the downright baffling....

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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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