Short description
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."
Long description
An all-new collection of unusual and intriguing words, drawn from the author's 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 week, 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 chapters ranging 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. Th