Word A Day: A Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English
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...
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"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 (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. St. Petersburg Times Only Anu Garg, the founder of Wordsmith.org, can make word facts this much fun.
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Introduction.Animal Words Latin Terms Words to Describe People - I Lesser-Known Counterparts of Everyday Words Words for Odds and Ends Reduplicatives Discover the Theme I Gender-Specific Nouns Verbs Coined Words I Back-Formations Portmanteaux Short Words Words That Make Spell-Checker Ineffective Names for Things Words Formed by Metathesis Words Not to Put On Your Resume A Verbal Zoo Words From Medicine Semordnilap Words With Color as Metaphor Words that Make One Say, "I Didn't Know there was a Word for That!" Wordpix I Wordpix II Wordpix III Words with Offbeat Pluralizations Words about Relations Collective Nouns< Positive Words Discover the Theme II Lesser-Known Synonyms of Everyday Words Words from Speeches Words That Contain the Vowels AEIOU Once and Only Once Coined Words II English as a Global Language Eponyms Words about Words I Uncommon Words with Common Suffixes Words to Describe People II Ordinal Words Words for Odds and Ends Red-Herring Words Discover the Theme III Newer Words in the Oxford English Dictionary War of Words and Words of War Words for Physical Characteristics Used to Describe People Figuratively Words Evolved from Folk Etymologies Words about Words II Words Formed Using Combining Forms Words Formed Using Combining Forms Words for Body Parts That Are Used Metaphorically Red-Herring Words Revisited Words from Nature's Oeuvre Words about People Who Love Books Mondegreens and Other Linguistic Faux Pas Answers to the Discover the Theme Chapters Bibliography Index of Words
\ From the Publisher* “…Uncommon English words to enrich your vocabulary…”(India Today, 7 July 2003)\ \ \ \ \ USA TodayTriggers the kind of passionate reaction that actors, authors and memoirists would die for.\ \ \ Times Literary Supplement (UK)Part reference work, part entertainment, English teachers, addicts of Scrabble, solvers of crossword puzzles, and other bibliophages will enjoy this book.\ \ \ \ \ St. Petersburg TimesOnly Anu Garg, the founder of Wordsmith.org, can make word facts this much fun.\ \
