Author

Henry Hitchings

8 books

Books

  1. The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English 2008
  2. The Language Wars: A History of Proper English 2011
  3. Sorry!: The English and Their Manners 2013
  4. Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary 2005
  5. How to Really Talk about Books You Haven't Read 2008
3 more
  1. The personal history of Samuel Johnson 1971
  2. Dr Johnson's Dictionary 2005
  3. Whos Afraid of Jane Austen 2009

“If you like Henry Hitchings, you might like these writers too.”

  1. David Crystal The Stories of English
  2. Jack Lynch The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park
  3. John McWhorter Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
  4. Robert McCrum Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language
  5. Nicholas Ostler The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel
  6. Simon Winchester The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
  7. David Wolman Righting the Mother Tongue: From Olde English to Email, the Tangled Story of English Spelling
  8. Seth Lerer Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language

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