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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 (L:eSub)

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Long Time Gone by David Crosby Father Joe by Tony Hendra  Portrait of Emily Dickinson by David Higgins  Wagner: His Life and Music by Stephen Johnson  Beirut Fragment by Jean Said Makdisi  Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music by John McWhorter