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Another Word A Day: An All-new Romp Through Some Of The Most Unusual And Intriguing Words In English
Another Word A Day An Allnew Romp Through Some Of The Most Unusual And Intriguing Words In English Author:Anu Garg An all-new collection of unusual and intriguing words, drawn from the authors beloved e-mail newsletter In 1994, Anu Garg began A Word A Day (AWAD), a free e-mail service that delivers a new word every weekday, accompanied by a definition, etymology, sample usage, and commentary. Each week has a different theme, and at the end of the w... more »eek, Garg sends out a newsletter with enthusiastic feedback from the more than half-million AWAD subscribers around the world. Now, in this encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Garg offers 52 new delightfully themed chaptersranging from "Words Formed Erroneously" and "Words of Horse-related Origins" to "Words Borrowed from Yiddish" and "Red-Herring Words." In them, readers will discover a treasure trove of 260 curious and compelling new words, including agelast, bissextile, cockamamie, cumshaw, disembogue, dragoman, fartlek, manitou, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, sennight, tattersall, yegg, zaftig, and zugzwang. For A Word A Day subscribers and word buffs everywhere, this book will make the perfect gift. Anu Garg (Seattle, WA) is the founder of Wordsmith.org, a community of some 600,000 word lovers in 200 countries. The author of A Word A Day (0-471-23023-4), he writes about language-related issues for magazines and newspapers and speaks internationally.« less