by Linda | Apr 19, 2017 | Authors
The only person I know who owns a full set of the Oxford English Dictionary is Ara Taylor, a writer who handles Course Reserves at the Whatcom Community College Library. When, in 1977, her parents asked her what she wanted for graduation, she said—because of her...
by Linda | Apr 8, 2017 | Authors
D is for Detective, as in The Word Detective (2016) by John Simpson. I’d save this book for the “W” entry, but it’s due at the library and another word-hungry reader wants it. The book’s subtitle is “Searching for the Meaning of it all at the Oxford English...
by Linda | Apr 2, 2017 | Authors
Anu Garg, that is. You haven’t heard of him? Well, there are a quarter million word lovers in 200 countries who subscribe to his A-Word-A-Day column (AWAD) which The New York Times calls “the most welcomed, most enduring piece of daily mass mail in cyberspace.” I...
