the English language

Book Reviews

• David Crystal: English as a Global Language
  - its use, history, and culture
• David Crystal: Spell It Out
  The Singular Story of English Spelling
• Lyn Dupré: Bugs in Writing
  A Guide to Debugging Your Prose
• Peter Gilliver, et al.: The Ring of Words
  Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
• Richard Hogg, David Denison: A History of the English Language
  - "pitched at senior undergraduates in the main"
• Richard Hogg: An Introduction to Old English
  - a historical account, setting the language in context
• Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum: A Student's Introduction to English Grammar*
  - using the latest linguistic research
• John Van Maanen: Tales of the Field
  On Writing Ethnography
• Tom McArthur: The English Languages
• Orrin W. Robinson: Old English and its Closest Relatives*
  A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages
• William Strunk, E.B. White: The Elements of Style
  - a classic but dated guide to English style
• Joseph M. Williams: Style*
  Toward Clarity and Grace

See also: Britain | linguistics