Other Key Texts:

Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson

The Adventure of English by Melvin Bragg

Planet word by Stephen Fry

Eats Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss

Don’t Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari

The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of English Language by David Crystal

English & Media Centre Language: A Student Handbook on Key Topics and Theories

How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal