Ebook: A Word A Day: a Rom Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English
Author: Garg Anu, Garg Stuti
- Tags: English language, English language--Etymology, English language--New words, English language--Terms and phrases, Vocabulary, Terms and phrases, Dictionaries, Glossaries vocabularies etc, English language -- Etymology, English language -- Glossaries vocabularies etc, English language -- New words -- Dictionaries, English language -- Terms and phrases, English language -- New words
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- City: Hoboken
- Edition: Di 1 ban
- Language: English
- epub
"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...