My favorite books about words
By an Amazon.com customer
 | Word Spy: The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture by Paul Mcfedries
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$23.00
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$1.93 |
 | There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent Guide to Life by Charles Harringto Elster
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$11.20
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$3.18 |
 | What in the Word? Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language (Harvest Original) (Harvest Original) by Charles Harrington Elster
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$11.20
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$1.50 |
 | The Cunning Linguist: Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun by Richard Lederer
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$11.16
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$1.07 |
 | Depraved and Insulting English by Peter Novobatzky
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$10.40
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$0.01 |
 | Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists
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$11.90
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$0.05 |
 | Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive ScrabblePlayers by Stefan Fatsis
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$10.88
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$0.98 |
 | Garner's Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner
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$26.37
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$18.10 |
 | Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words by Josefa H. Byrne
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