A list of 98 words by sionnach.
- foyle's further philavery (christopher foyle)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- foyle's philavery (christopher foyle)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- there's a word for it (sol steinmetz)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- you are what you speak (robert lane greene)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- they have a word for it (howard rheingold)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- um...: slips, stumbles, and verbal blunders, and what they mean (michael erard)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- dewdroppers, waldos, and slackers (rosemarie ostler)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- defining the world : the extraordinary story of dr johnson's dictionary (henry hitchings)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- cupboard love : a dictionary of culinary curiosities (mark morton)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- bibliophile's dictionary (miles westley)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- in other words (christopher j. moore)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- 201 russian verbs: fully conjugated in all the tenses, alphabetically arranged (patricia anne davis)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- reading in the brain: the science and evolution of a human invention (stanislas dehaene)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- things that make us (sic) (martha brockenbrough)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- brewer's dictionary of phrase and fablewas added by sionnach and appears on 3 lists
- walking english : a journey in search of language (david crystal)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- slang : the people's poetry (michael adams)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- in the land of invented languages (arika okrent)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- mataburros : lunfardo-english dictionary (sara melul)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- speaking of animals : a dictionary of animal metaphors (robert a palmatier)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- alphabet juice (roy blount jr.)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the superior person's book of words (peter bowler)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- everything you know about english is wrong (william brohaugh)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- reading the oed (ammon shea)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the official dictionary of unofficial english (grant barrett)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- century dictionary onlinewas added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- parkvall's limits of languagewas added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- hatch's order of magnitude (michael hatch)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- word nerd (barbara ann kipfer)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- bizarre books : a compendium of classic oddities (russell ash, brian lake)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- bertha venation ; and hundreds of other funny names of real people (larry ashmead)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- paradigms lost : reflections on literacy and its decline (john simon)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- new words (orin hargraves)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- spellbound (james essinger)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- 2000 most challenging and obscure words (norman w schur)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- biting the wax tadpole : confessions of a language fanatic (elizabeth little)was added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- a treasury for word lovers (morton s. freeman)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- almanac of words at play (willard espy)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- literary trivia (richard lederer)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- what in the word (charles harrington elster)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- more weird and wonderful words (danny shanahan)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- english as she is spoke (jose da fonseca)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- from achilles' heel to zeus' shield (dale dibbley)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the stuff of thought (steven pinker)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the first word (christine kenneally)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the unfolding of language (guy deutscher)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the atoms of language (mark c. baker)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- mrs. byrne's dictionary (j.h. byrne)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the blank slate (steven pinker)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- how the mind works (steven pinker)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- blooming english (kate burridge)was added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- the bride of anguished english (richard lederer)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- circus of words (richard lederer)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- loose cannons, red herrings ... (robert claiborne)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the word detective (evan morris)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the language imperative (suzette haden elgin)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the genius of language (wendy lesser)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the language police (diane ravitch)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- word freak (stefan fatsis)was added by sionnach and appears on 2 lists
- pocket rhyming dictionary (merriam-webster)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the meaning of tingo (adam jacot de boinod)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- word court (barbara wallraf)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the story of english (robert mccrum)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the stories of english (david crystal)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- kant and the platypus (umberto eco)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- le ton beau de marot (douglas r. hofstadter)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the cunning linguist (richard lederer)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- verbatim (erin mckean)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- et cetera, et cetera (lewis thomas)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- language myths (peter trudgill)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- dictionary of russian obscenities (david alan drummond)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- doing our own thing (john mcwhorter)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- there's a word for it : a grandiloquent guide to life (charles harrington elster)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the secret lives of words (paul west)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- genes, peoples, and languages (luigi luca cavalli-sforza)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- oxymoronica (mardy grothe)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- eats, shoots and leaves (lynne truss)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the language instinct : how the mind creates language (steven pinker)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- words and rules : the ingredients of language (steven pinker)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the meaning of everything (simon winchester)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the professor and the madman (simon winchester)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the message in the bottle (walker percy)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the way we talk now (geoffrey nunberg)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- garner's modern american usage (bryan a. garner)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- when is a pig a hog (bernice randall)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- dictionary of hiberno-english (t.p. dolan)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- depraved and insulting english (peter novobatzky)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the power of babel (john mcwhorter)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- a new dictionary of eponyms (morton s. freeman)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- junk english (ken smith)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the mother tongue (bill bryson)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- spoken here : travels among threatened languages (mark abley)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- horsefeathers: and other curious words (charles e. funk)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- language death (david crystal)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- predicting new words : the secrets of their success (allan metcalf)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- word play : what happens when people talk (peter farb)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- word spy : the word lover's guide to modern culture (paul mcfedries)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
- the dictionary of wordplay (dave morice)was added by sionnach and appears on just this list
reesetee commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
Hey, this is great! Thanks, sionnach (or should we call you David now)? A few of these books are on my reading list as well. :-)
January 20, 2008
sionnach commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
I have added my own, highly subjective, ratings. Maximum is five stars. Your mileage may vary.
January 20, 2008
mollusque commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
Wonderful list! It would be great if other Wordies followed suit. We could build up a Wordie library.
January 20, 2008
sionnach commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
In some cases, a more complete review of the book in question may be found over on the goodreads.com site:
goodreads list of word/language books
January 20, 2008
chained_bear commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
Sionnach, this is awesome! Thanks! I think I have a couple of these titles on my read-soon list (which isn't actually on Wordie, but should be...).
January 20, 2008
reesetee commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
Ah yes, sionnach--I've been following your reviews on Goodreads. Very good.
January 21, 2008
asativum commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
May I recommend Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable? The 1898 version is available online, but half the fun is leafing through the actual book and following cross-references endlessly. I believe the most recent is the sixteenth edition
January 21, 2008
delirium commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
Ah! Thanks for this list. I have some of those books, others I have them marked for buying some time soon, and some others I had never heard of. So I greatly appreciate it.
March 25, 2008
sionnach commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
In a misguided excess of zeal, I am attempting to complete a reasonably comprehensive review of those books on this list primarily dedicated to vocabulary over on the goodreads site. If anyone is interested, the relevant thread may be found here:
Word books reviewed
(John: I hope this post does not smack too-much of self-promotion)
February 3, 2009
rolig commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
Wow. This is fantastic, Sionnach. I don't know how I missed seeing this before now.
February 3, 2009
reesetee commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
Thanks, S. Been following you on Goodreads.
February 3, 2009
dontcry commented on the list david-s-books-about-words-and-language
Whoa!
January 18, 2010