The Language Report
If you’re a fan of Lynne Truss, Strunk and White and other famed protagonists of good, clean and correct English, Susie Dent’s ‘The like, Language Report innit’ is for you. It’s Dent’s fourth annual update and, in addition to providing fascinating and well-written insights into the latest developments in the English language, it offers a peek into linguistic worlds I’d never even dreamed about: the poker table, the macabre arena of medicine and disease, the colourful cartoon industry, the shady criminal underworld, and other platforms.
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Movers and Shakers: A Chronology of Words That Shaped Our Age
I love reference books and other forms of literature compiled to serve such purpose. This includes encyclopedias and dictionaries mainly because I do a lot of research while writing.
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Gallimaufry - A Hodgepodge of Our Vanishing Vocabulary
As a lover of words and their origins, I found this offering fascinating, Although it is not the kind of book one reads from cover to cover, it is an addictive ‘daily fix’.
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