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Books sorted (language and linguistics)

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Languages in a Globalising World by Jacques Maurais Italici: encounter with Piero Bassetti Second Latin Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music by John McWhorter   Globish by Robert McCrum   The Joy of Words by Fritz Spiegl   The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester   Do You Make These Mistakes in English? by Edwin L. Battistella Does Accent Matter? by John Honey The College Latin-English Dictionary Book of Usage and Abusage by Eric Partridge American Slang by Robert Chapman Cambridge Latin Course 1 The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester

Library Booklist (H:eGKC)

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China Wakes by Nicholas  Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn   A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka   Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes by Greil Marcus   Oxford by Jan Morris   How the West Was Lost by Dambisa Moyo   High Tech High Touch: Technology and Search for Meaning by John Naisbitt   Book of Usage and Abusage by Eric Partridge