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Loading... Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in Englishby Anu Garg
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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 No library descriptions found. |
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Certainly the format here presents nothing new, unfortunately, but a tidying-up. Each chapter is five words (one week) long, with anecdotes about some of the words provided by subscribing fans, and nifty miscellaneous quotations at the bottom of most pages.
If you've not subscribed to the service yet, start now, and read this book (and its companion, [b:A Word a Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English|755859|A Word a Day A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English|Anu Garg|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1347319853s/755859.jpg|741975], to get caught up on some of what you missed.
And do be an active reader. When you find one of the words intriguing, try to use it in your next conversation, or at least write it down in a sentence that reveals its meaning. Otherwise you'll probably find, as I did, that the learning doesn't stick, and the time spent reading the book is mostly wasted.
ETA/done.
My notes say my favorite new words are sciolist and ubiety. But I have to look them up to remember what they mean. However, I don't blame the author for my laziness, and so am still recommending this to *everybody.* ( )