Language
The dictionary of lost words : a novel
Williams, Pip, 1969- author
2021
Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the "Scriptorium," a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. As she grows up, Esme realizes that words and meanings relating to women's and common folks' experiences often go unrecorded. And so she begins in earnest to search out words for her own dictionary. To do so, she must leave her sheltered world and venture out to meet the people whose words will fill those pages.
The etymologicon : a circular stroll through the hidden connections of the English language
Forsyth, Mark
2012
Fluent in 3 months : how anyone at any age can learn to speak any language from anywhere in the world
Lewis, Benny (Brendan Richard), author
2014
The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary
Winchester, Simon
1998
Through the language glass : why the world looks different in other languages
Deutscher, Guy, 1969-
2010
A masterpiece of linguistics scholarship, at once erudite and entertaining, confronts the thorny question of how--and whether--culture shapes language and language, culture.
