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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
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3.82 avg rating — 6,922 ratings
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2008
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2 editions
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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
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3.94 avg rating — 6,029 ratings
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published
2021
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11 editions
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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter — Then, Now, and Forever
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3.95 avg rating — 3,710 ratings
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published
2021
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The Story of Human Language
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4.41 avg rating — 2,841 ratings
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published
2004
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4 editions
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,064 ratings
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published
2001
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19 editions
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Words on the Move: Why English Won't—and Can't—Sit Still
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4.14 avg rating — 1,851 ratings
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2016
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6 editions
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The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
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3.73 avg rating — 1,320 ratings
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2014
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13 editions
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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
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4.16 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
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published
2016
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9 editions
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Language Families of the World
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4.43 avg rating — 885 ratings
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published
2019
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2 editions
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Language A to Z
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4.29 avg rating — 898 ratings
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published
2013
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2 editions
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What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be
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3.88 avg rating — 776 ratings
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published
2011
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11 editions
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Myths, Lies and Half-Truths of Language Usage
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4.38 avg rating — 574 ratings
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2012
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5 editions
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Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
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3.93 avg rating — 596 ratings
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2000
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11 editions
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Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
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3.61 avg rating — 290 ratings
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published
2003
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2 editions
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Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of "Pure" Standard English
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3.89 avg rating — 239 ratings
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1998
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13 editions
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Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America
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3.94 avg rating — 191 ratings
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2005
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12 editions
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Authentically Black
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3.86 avg rating — 184 ratings
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2003
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6 editions
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Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet
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3.98 avg rating — 152 ratings
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Understanding Linguistics: The Science of Language
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All about the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America
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3.32 avg rating — 81 ratings
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2008
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8 editions
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Spreading the Word: Language and Dialect in America
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 34 ratings
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2000
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2 editions
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The Creole Debate
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Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars
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3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
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2007
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4 editions
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Surprises in the Ancestry of Old English
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4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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How the Words of Modern English Emerged
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3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Dialects and the Fallacy of Blackboard Grammar
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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How Artificial Languages Work
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3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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published
2000
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5 editions
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Defining Creole
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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2004
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11 editions
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Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress? (Language Contact and Bilingualism
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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published
2011
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5 editions
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