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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts (Hardcover) By Silvia Ferrara, Todd Portnowitz (Translated by) $29.00 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE Location	Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern (Hardcover) By Jing Tsu $28.00 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE Location	Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme--And Other Oddities of the English Language (Hardcover) By Arika Okrent, Sean O'Neill (Illustrator) $19.95 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE Location
The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World (Hardcover) By Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater $30.00 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE Location	Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers (Paperback) By Cheryl Misak $16.95 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE Location	Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide (Paperback) By Josh Katz $17.99 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE Location
The Book of Nonexistent Words (Paperback) By Stefano Massini, Richard Dixon (Translated by) $23.99 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE Location	The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way (Paperback) By Bill Bryson $16.99 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE Location	What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She (Paperback) By Dennis Baron $16.95 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE Location
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages (Paperback) By Gaston Dorren $17.00 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE Location	Holy Sht: A Brief History of Swearing (Paperback) By Melissa Mohr $15.95 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE* Location	The Language of Thieves: My Family's Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate (Paperback) By Martin Puchner $17.95 Add to Wish List Click Title for IN STORE Location