Another Word a Day: An All-New Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Anu Garg
Garg offers 52 chapters of unusual, exotic, and interesting words, grouped bytheme, such as "Words Borrowed from Yiddish," "Words Formed Erroneously," and"Red-Herring Words."
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A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic words
In this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual, intriguing words and real-life anecdotes that will thrill writers, scholars, and word buffs everywhere. Another Word A Day celebrates the English language in all its quirkiness, grandeur, and fun, and features new chapters ranging from "Words Formed Erroneously" and "Red-Herring Words" to "Kangaroo Words," "Discover the Theme," and "What Does That Company Name Mean?" In them, you'll find a treasure trove of curious and compelling words, including agelast, dragoman, mittimus, nyctalopia, quacksalver, scission, tattersall, and zugzwang. Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example, interspersed with illuminating quotations.
Praise for a word a day"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
"AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories."
--John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary
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- Title Another Word a Day: An All-New Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English
- Author Anu Garg
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 244
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, Somerset, New Jersey, U.S.A
- Date 2005-10-01
- ISBN 9780471718451 / 0471718459
- Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.55 x 0.59 in (21.59 x 14.10 x 1.50 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Vocabulary, English language
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005004284
- Dewey Decimal Code 428.1
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- Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 95
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