wordslut: a feminist guide to taking back the english language by Amanda Montell analyzed language and the gendered terms within it, with an emphasis on
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary by Stefan Fatsis [1] chronicled the author’s time while working as a trainee lexicographer for
The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura (translated by Mari Yoshihara and Juliet Winters Carpenter) caused quite an uproar when
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie was a pleasant read about some of the three thousand
I heard about Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney after listening to a radio interview with the author. Spinney captivated my
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English by Hana Videen looked at Old English vocabulary by theme. Chapters were divided into subjects such as Eating
alfabet / alphabet: a memoir of a first language by Sadiqa de Meijer was the perfect book to start–and finish–while taking the train from Glasgow
Burushaski: An Extraordinary Language in the Karakoram Mountains by Dick Grune was a Schoenhof’s find. This slim booklet of only 38 pages looked at this
Eunoia by Christian Bök is a book of chapters where each one limits itself to using a solitary vowel. Thus in each of the first
The Atlas of Unusual Languages by Zoran Nikolić was published on thick paper which belied its brevity of 240 pages. Thus as a short book