A non-fiction book for the information age, talking about how people send information (and misinformation) from tum-tums in Africa, to Ada Lovelace-Alan turning

In the book John Pollack explains the significance of the pun, how the pun revolutionized the language weaving stories, history, science, culture & literature

The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson is a collection of amusing and fascinating pieces of trivia grouped by topic (barley though) about the English language