Book description
"Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations
hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!"
-Barbara Wallraff
Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court
Praise for A Word a Day
"AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to
words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories. The people who
use them have curious stories to tell too, and this collection
incorporates some of the correspondence received by the editors at the
AWAD site, from advice on how to outsmart your opponent in a duel (or
even a truel) to a cluster of your favorite mondegreens."
-John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary
"A banquet of words! Feast and be nourished!"
-Richard Lederer, author of The Miracle of Language
Written by the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (www.
wordsmith. org), this collection of unusual, obscure, and exotic English
words will delight writers, scholars, crossword puzzlers, and word buffs
of every ilk. The words are grouped in intriguing categories that range
from "Portmanteaux" to "Words That Make the Spell-Checker
Ineffective." each entry includes a concise definition, etymology,
and usage example-and many feature fascinating and hilarious
commentaries by A Word A Day subscribers and the authors. ANU GARG is
the founder of wordsmith. org, a. k.a. A Word A Day, which he has
maintained since 1994.
STUTI GARG is an entrepreneur and a founder of Namix, a trademark and
naming solutions company. Anu and Stuti Garg live in Seattle.
