Synopses & Reviews
A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic wordsIn 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
Synopsis
This is the sequel to Anu Garg's popular A Word a Day based on his 600,000-subscriber website. Garg, then a graduate student in computer sciences, began in 1994 A Word A Day (AWAD), a website and free daily e-mail service that offers subscribers a new words every day, with a definition, etymology, example sentency and commentary. Each week has a different theme -- from Greek Mythology to Words from Film -- and at the end of the month, he sends out a newsletter with feedback and commentary from his subscribers.
For Another Word a Day, Garg will again offer 52 chapters of unusual, exotic, and interesting words, grouped by theme, such as Words Borrowed from Yiddish, Words Formed Erroneously, Red-Herring Words.
Synopsis
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
Synopsis
A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic wordsIn 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
About the Author
ANU GARG is the founder of wordsmith.org, an online community of more than 600,000 word lovers in 200 countries, now in its twelfth year. He is the author of the bestselling book A Word A Day (Wiley). Garg speaks frequently about words and language internationally.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
1. Words to Describe People I.
2. Earls Who Became Words (or Places That Became Words).
3. Words Having Origins in Chess.
4. Words That Appear to Be Misspellings of Everyday Words I.
5. Archaic Words.
6. Toponyms.
7. Words about Books and Writing.
8. Words Borrowed from Yiddish.
9. Terms from the World of Law.
10. Words That Appear to Be Misspellings of Everyday Words II.
11. Words Borrowed from Arabic.
12. Words Formed Erroneously.
13. What’s in a Name?
14. Words from Poetry.
15. Fishy Words.
16. Discover the Theme I.
17. Terms Employing Various Nationalities.
18. Words with Double Connections.
19. Words Related to the Calendar.
20. False Friends.
21. Red-Herring Words.
22. Words Related to the Human Body.
23. Words Related to Buying and Selling.
24. Miscellaneous Words.
25. Words That Have Changed Meaning with Time.
26. Words about Words.
27. Anglo-Saxon Words.
28. Words Borrowed from Other Languages.
29. Words from Medicine.
30. Numeric Terms.
31. Kangaroo Words.
32. What Does That Company Name Mean?
33. Words with Interesting Etymologies.
34. Words to Describe People II.
35. Words about Collecting and the Study of Things.
36. Words from the World of Law II.
37. Words Derived from Other Languages.
38. Words about Words II.
39. Words Borrowed from African Languages.
40. Metallic Words Used as Metaphors.
41. Words Related to Movies.
42. Discover the Theme II.
43. Miscellaneous Words II.
44. Words That Aren’t What They Appear to Be.
45. Words of Horse-Related Origins.
46. Words of Horse-Related Origins II.
47. Words with Origins in War.
48. Words from Latin.
49. Words to Describe Your Opponents.
50. Discover the Theme III.
51. Words Borrowed from Native American Languages.
52. Loanwords from Spanish.
Answers.
Web Resources: More Fun with Words.
Index of Words.