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Which book would you like to see as the Group Read for the Spring 2025 Challenge in the category Non-Fiction- Linquistics?
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings
11 votes
, 22.4%
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
11 votes
, 22.4%
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
9 votes
, 18.4%
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
5 votes
, 10.2%
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
5 votes
, 10.2%
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
3 votes
, 6.1%
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
2 votes
, 4.1%
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
2 votes
, 4.1%
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
1 vote
, 2.0%
Language Death
0 votes
, 0.0%
49 total votes
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Books:
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by
Gretchen McCulloch
(Goodreads Author)
Language Death (Canto)
by
David Crystal
Against Interpretation and Other Essays (Paperback)
by
Susan Sontag
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Hardcover)
by
John Koenig
The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone (Hardcover)
by
Edward Dolnick
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages (Hardcover)
by
Guy Deutscher
Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English (Paperback)
by
John McWhorter
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings (Kindle Edition)
by
Susie Dent
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (Hardcover)
by
Maryanne Wolf
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover)
by
Amanda Montell
(Goodreads Author)
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May 15, 2025 02:54PM
FYI- Language Death seems to be displaying incorrectly and no votes shown, yet it's in the middle of the pack!
Actually, I just noticed it's listed twice: once at the bottom, and also part of the listing for Wordslut
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Actually, I just noticed it's listed twice: once at the bottom, and also part of the listing for Wordslut