Books books books A Christmas Cornucopia (Mark Forsyth) - Festive nerdary! What’s not to love. See my review here Women Talk More than Men… and Other Myths about Language Explained (Abby Kaplan) - For the proto-linguist in your life. See my review here What the F (Benjamin K. Bergen) - For the sweary nerd. Stan Carey reviewed this over at Strong Language Words on the Move (John McWhorter) - I didn’t get a chance to review this, but McWhorter is always engaging and I trust his fact checking more than many pop-linguistics writers. (Literal-Minded Neal has a review) Things other than books Yes, it amazes me too, but there are things other than books A subscription to Babel Zine There’s still a few days to buy into the Dialect Kickstarter (my review here) Oxford Games have a variety of word nerd entertainment, including The Hieroglyphs Game, Flummoxed and Anagram. (Thanks to The Allusionist, ‘ALL15’ at checkout gets you 15% off!) Some superstylish Auslan and NZSL products from Vivid Expressions Buy them a subscription/donation to a great linguistics/language podcast like The History of English, The Allusionist or Talk the Talk 3D print them them this schwa cookie cutter I made (p.s. I haven’t actually tried it yet, it may be rubbish) The new Rosetta Wearable Disk - it’ll only set you back a grand! Adopt a word at Wordnik Christmas sweaters, t-shirts and cushions from The Ling Space: We also had gift suggestion posts in 2013 and 2015, they’re full of other great ideas (although some links may no longer work).

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