About Words, Writing & Grammar

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	1,001 WORDS AND PHRASES YOU NEVER KNEW YOU DIDN'T KNOW: Hopperdozer, Hoecake, Ear Trumpet, Dort, and Other Nearly Forgotten Terms and Expressions. By W.R. Runyan. Remainder Item #3433498 Pub at $12.95 - Our Price $4.95

	ADDICTIONARY: Brave New Words. This book is shopworn. It may have scuffed covers or edges, or other minor imperfections. Remainder Item #2483580 Pub at $12.95 - Our Price $1.95

	ALL IN A WORD: 100 Delightful Excursions into the Uses and Abuses of Words. By Vivian Cook. Remainder Item #3472930 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $5.95

	ALPHABET JUICE. By Roy Blount, Jr. Remainder Item #236784X Pub at $25.00 - Our Price $2.95

	AMBROSE BIERCE'S WRITE IT RIGHT: The Celebrated Cynic's Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers. By Jan Freeman. Remainder Item #2524430 Pub at $24.00 - Our Price $4.95

	THE BEST WORDS. By Robert Hartwell Fiske. Current Item #2615231 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $9.95

	THE BIRDS AND BEES OF WORDS: A Guide to the Most Common Errors in Usage, Spelling, and Grammar. By Mary Embree. Remainder Item #1785885 Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $2.95

	THE BOOK OF WORDS: An Entertaining Look at Words and How We Have Come to Use Them. By Tim Glynne-Jones. Remainder Item #2447266 Our Price $2.95

	CAVE CANEM: A Miscellany of Latin Words & Phrases. By Lorna Robinson. Remainder Item #3449181 Pub at $17.00 - Our Price $4.95

	THE CHEAPER THE CROOK, THE GAUDIER THE PATTER: Forgotten Hipster Lines, Tough Guy Talk, and Jive Gems. By Alan Axelrod. Current Item #348436X Pub at $12.95 - Our Price $9.95

	A DICTIONARY OF MADE-UP LANGUAGES. By Stephen D. Rogers. Current Item #3438481 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $11.95

	THE DIMWIT'S DICTIONARY, SECOND EDITION: 5,000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them. By Robert Hartwell Fiske. Remainder Item #2536714 Orig. Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $2.95

	ENDANGERED PHRASES: Intriguing Idioms Dangerously Close to Extinction. By Steven D. Price. Current Item #3350339 Pub at $12.95 - Our Price $9.95

	ENDANGERED WORDS: A Collection of Rare Gems for Word Lovers. By Simon Hertnon. Remainder Item #2594765 Pub at $12.95 - Our Price $2.95

	EUPHEMANIA: Our Love Affair with Euphemisms. By Ralph Keyes. Remainder Item #3468364 Pub at $24.99 - Our Price $5.95

	FOYLE'S FURTHER PHILAVERY: A Cornucopia of Lexical Delights. Remainder Item #2571455 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $4.95

	FOYLE'S PHILAVERY: A Treasury of Unusual Words. Remainder Item #2571463 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $4.95

	THE GLAMOUR OF GRAMMAR: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English. By Roy Peter Clark. Remainder Item #3468429 Pub at $19.99 - Our Price $7.95

	GRAMMAR ESSENTIALS FOR DUMMIES. By Geraldine Woods with J. Friedman. Remainder Item #2592614 Pub at $9.99 - Our Price $4.95

	GRAMMAR SUCKS: What to Do to Make Your Writing Much More Better. By Joanne Kimes with G. Muschla. This book is shopworn. It may have scuffed covers or edges, or other minor imperfections. Remainder Item #2424185 Pub at $12.95 - Our Price $3.95

	HOT FOR WORDS: Answers to All Your Burning Questions About Words and Their Meanings. By Marina Orlova. Remainder Item #2382660 Pub at $14.99 - Our Price $3.95

	THE INS AND OUTS OF PREPOSITIONS. By Jean Yates. Remainder Item #3474496 Pub at $12.99 - Our Price $4.95

	INSTANT VOCABULARY. By Ida Ehrlich. Current Item #2589338 Pub at $6.99 - Our Price $4.95

	IT'S ALL IN A WORD. By Vivian Cook. Remainder Item #3332268 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $3.95

	THE LANGUAGE WARS: A History of Proper English. By Henry Hitchings. Current Item #3445526 Pub at $28.00 - Our Price $18.95

	THE MERRIAM-WEBSTER NEW BOOK OF WORD HISTORIES. Remainder Item #1793497 Our Price $3.95

	MERRIAM-WEBSTER'S VOCABULARY BUILDER, SECOND EDITION. By Mary Wood Cornog. Remainder Item #3473961 Pub at $6.99 - Our Price $3.95

	A MILLION WORDS AND COUNTING: How Global English Is Rewriting the World. By Paul J.J. Payack. Remainder Item #2402211 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $2.95

	MORE WORDS YOU SHOULD KNOW. By Michelle Bevilacqua. Remainder Item #2645297 Pub at $9.95 - Our Price $3.95

	MORTAL SYNTAX: 101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs--Even If You're Right. By June Casagrande. Remainder Item #2531038 Pub at $14.00 - Our Price $2.95

	MY GRAMMAR AND I...OR SHOULD THAT BE "ME"? How to Speak and Write It Right. By C. Taggart & J.A. Wines. Current Item #242312X Pub at $14.95 - Our Price $9.95

	NOTHING RHYMES WITH ORANGE: Perfect Words for Poets, Songwriters, and Rhymers. By Bessie G. Redfield with H. Vestergaard. Remainder Item #2628368 Pub at $14.00 - Our Price $4.95

	ON THE DOT: The Speck That Changed the World. By Alexander & Nicholas Humez. Remainder Item #1756311 Pub at $24.95 - Our Price $4.95

	ORIGINS OF THE SPECIOUS: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language. By P.T. O'Conner & S. Kellerman. Remainder Item #2601095 Pub at $22.00 - Our Price $4.95

	ORIGINS OF THE SPECIOUS: Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language. By P.T. O'Conner & S. Kellerman. Remainder Item #3482669 Pub at $15.00 - Our Price $4.95

	THE PUN ALSO RISES: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics. By John Pollack. Current Item #2628643 Pub at $22.50 - Our Price $14.95

	THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH AND HOW TO USE IT. By Bernard C. Lamb. Current Item #3400573 Pub at $16.95 - Our Price $11.95

	RANDOM HOUSE WEBSTER'S RHYMING DICTIONARY. Current Item #7286562 Pub at $12.95 - Our Price $9.95

	READING THE OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages. By Ammon Shea. Remainder Item #1754467 Pub at $13.95 - Our Price $1.95

	READING THE OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages. By Ammon Shea. Remainder Item #2408805 Pub at $21.95 - Our Price $2.95

	THE SECRET LIFE OF WORDS: How English Became English. By Henry Hitchings. Remainder Item #2537613 Pub at $17.00 - Our Price $4.95

	SISTER BERNADETTE'S BARKING DOG: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences. By Kitty Burns Florey. Remainder Item #3479609 Pub at $19.95 - Our Price $5.95

	SLANG: The People's Poetry. By Michael Adams. Remainder Item #3378802 Pub at $23.95 - Our Price $5.95

	SMART WORDS: Vocabulary for the Erudite, and Those Who Wish to Be. By Mim Harrison. Current Item #2619229 Pub at $12.00 - Our Price $8.95

	STICKLERS, SIDEBURNS & BIKINIS: The Military Origins of Everyday Words and Phrases. By Graeme Donald. Remainder Item #2438623 Pub at $15.95 - Our Price $2.95

	THERE'S A WORD FOR IT: The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900. By Sol Steinmetz. Current Item #1772848 Pub at $19.99 - Our Price $13.95

	THINGAMAJIGS AND WHATCHAMACALLITS: Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things. By Rod L. Evans. Current Item #3339831 Pub at $12.95 - Our Price $9.95

	TREASURE-HOUSE OF THE LANGUAGE: The Living OED. By Charlotte Brewer. Remainder Item #2388154 Pub at $35.00 - Our Price $3.95

	THE ULTIMATE BOOK OF WORDS STUDENTS SHOULD KNOW. By R.W. Bly & B.J. Nadler. Remainder Item #3435261 Our Price $5.95

	UNFORTUNATE ENGLISH: The Gloomy Truth Behind the Words You Use. By Bill Brohaugh. Remainder Item #2504375 Pub at $12.99 - Our Price $3.95

	THE UNTRANSLATABLES: The Most Intriguing Words from Around the World. By C.J. Moore. Remainder Item #1819925 Our Price $3.95