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    • The Biography of a Language
    • By: Melvyn Bragg
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2005
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 124 ratings
    • This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....

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    • A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
    • By: Amanda Montell
    • Narrated by: Laurence Bouvard
    • Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Amanda Montell, feminist linguist and features editor at online magazine Byrdie, explains why words matter and why it’s imperative that women embrace their unique relationship with language....

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    • Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist
    • By: Julian Burnside
    • Narrated by: James Millar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 18-12-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A bonzer (p. 288) discussion of the strange but dinkum (p. 289) pedigree (p. 224) of the naughty (p. 202), nice (p. 212), and, sometimes, obscene (p. 217) English language....

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    • The Untold Story of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic....

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    • Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Words on the Move opens our eyes to the surprising backstories to the words and expressions we use every day....

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    • Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
    • By: Susie Dent
    • Narrated by: Susie Dent
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Lexicographer and all-round word expert Susie Dent is a national treasure. The listener can discover a curious coinage or a fascinating etymological fact for every day of a full year....

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    • By: Robert Macfarlane
    • Narrated by: Roy McMillan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place....

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    • By: Lee Child
    • Narrated by: Jeff Harding
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling Jack Reacher series explores the endurance of heroes from Achilles to Bond, showing us how this age-old myth is a fundamental part of what makes us human....

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    • An Old English Bestiary
    • By: Hana Videen
    • Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Old English was spoken over a thousand years ago, when every animal was a deor. In this glittering Old English bestiary we find deors big and small, the ordinary and the extraordinary, the good, the bad and the downright baffling....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....

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    • Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder
    • By: Susie Dent
    • Narrated by: Susie Dent
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2022
    • Language: English
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    • There are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner and lexicographer extraordinaire, is going to help you find them....

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    • Discovering Your Purpose Through the Power of Words
    • By: Kevin Hall
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • We live our lives word by word - to build our relationships, to convey our points of view, to object to wrongs done to us or to others, to comfort our children and our friends....

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    • A Journey Through the English Language
    • By: Paul Anthony Jones
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Surprising, entertaining, and illuminating, this is a must-listen for armchair travelers and word nerds. Our dictionaries are full of hidden histories, tales, and adventures from all over the world - if you know where to look....

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    • A Journey Through the Stone Age and the Origins of Modern Language
    • By: Christopher Stevens
    • Narrated by: Michael Healy
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-2015
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Half the world's population speaks a language that has evolved from a single prehistoric mother tongue....

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    • A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
    • By: Joseph Twadell Shipley
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 36 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2023
    • Language: English
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    • There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence....

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    • Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
    • By: Gabe Henry
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 15-04-2025
    • Language: English
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    • Gabe Henry tells the brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter.

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    • Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why
    • By: Jabari Asim
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-04-2007
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In 2003, the book Nigger started an intense conversation about the uses and implications of that epithet....

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