Language is a funny thing. If you’re reading this sentence, for example, there’s a good chance that you speak and understand English perfectly well. But there’s also a good chance that your English is slightly different from my English — we might disagree on whether it’s “standing in line” or “standing on line,” for example. Or you might call carbonated beverages “pop,” whereas I would call them “soda.” Or we might have a knock down, drag out fight over whether a long sandwich is called a “hoagie” a “sub” a “grinder” or a “hero.” That’s because English may seem like a perfectly stable language with rules and standards, but it is, in fact, a lawless jumble of several other languages stacked up, wearing a trench coat. English is a (very interesting) hot dumpster fire of a language that just keeps mutating with every passing day. So here are a few excellent books to help you de-mystify the English language, in all its many forms.
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