Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English

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 of ebook: Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English
ISBN: 9780471741954
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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Pages: 240
Published: 11-2005
Released online for download: 11-22-2005
Author of eBook: Garg, Anu

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Another Word A Day

Chapter One

Words to Describe People I

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else." Like all genuine humor, this waggish remark carries a grain of truth. There are six billion of us on Earth, and we are all very different-in our demeanor, diction, and dreams; in our fingerprints, retinal patterns, and DNA sequences.

Yet no matter which hand we write with, what language we speak, or what we eat, there is something that binds us together, whether it is our preference for a life free from fear, our efforts to make this world better for ourselves and for others, or our appreciation of the beauty of the soul and our longing for love.

With so many people, so many shared traits, and so many differences, it's no wonder we have so many words to describe people. Let's take a look at some of them.

opsimath (OP-si-math)

noun One who begins learning late in life. From Greek opsi- (late) + math (learning).

"Maybe they just cannot bring themselves to break the news to our presidential opsimath-after all, a politician can learn only so much in four years, even one who has had as much to learn a ... read full excerpt from Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English ebook

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Another Word A Day: An All-New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English

Another Word A Day

Chapter One

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