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PRODUCT DETAILS
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| Subtitle | A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English |
| Edition | New title |
| Page numbers | 224 |
| Description other | source list |
| Publication country | United States |
| Imprint | John Wiley & Sons Inc |
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ISBN |
0471230324 |
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ISBN13 |
9780471230328 |
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Publication |
12/11/2002 |
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Publisher / Imprint |
John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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This is a romp through more than 250 obscure, abstruse, wacky, and wonderful words from the founders of the world's no. 1 word-lovers' Web site. Written by the founders of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site and daily e-mail (500,000 subscribers, worldwide), this collection of unusual, obscure, and exotic English words is a must-have for writers, scholars, crossword puzzlers, and word buffs of every ilk. Like their e-mails, the book is organized around weekly themes and offers readers a different word for each day of the week in categories ranging from "Portmanteaux" to "Words That Make Spell-Checker Ineffective." Each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example, and many entries feature fascinating and amusing commentaries by A.W.A.D. subscribers and the authors. Representing fifty-five weeks worth of words, the 273 words compiled in "A Word A Day" includes some of the most popular weekly themes that have appeared on the Web site since its founding in 1994.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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ANU GARG is the founder of wordsmith.org, a.k.a. A Word A Day, which he has maintained since 1994. STUTI GARG is an entrepreneur and a founder of Namix, a trademark and naming solutions company. Anu and Stuti Garg live in Seattle.
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