A.Word.A.Day -- What's New

Oct 16: "[Wordsmith] is one of the best places to discover new words" says The Eastern New Mexico News (permalink), (formerly, Clovis News Journal).
May 4: Check out a new column on MSN Encarta: On Words with Anu Garg
Jan 19: Business Standard says about Dord: "Here is infotainment at its very best! Read it for fun and to be better informed."
Jan 6: The Olympian: has this to say about Dord: "This is a fun, eclectic, informative book."
Jan 6: The Seattle Times: Anu Garg | He's a man of his words (permalink)

Dec 11: Get a free signed bookplate for The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or two.
Nov 14: Anu Garg's talk/booksigning "will be a love-in for words." Says Seattle Times.
Nov 5: Read Anu Garg's guest blog on Freakonomics.
Sep 27: New book announced: The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words (Penguin).
May 1: Listen to Anu Garg on BBC Radio 4 program Word of Mouth
Mar 14: Wordsmith.org celebrates its tridecennial -- that's a thirteenth anniversary

Oct 29: Everything you wanted to know about etymology but were afraid to ask. Chat with Anatoly Liberman, author of Word Origins
Sep 26: What do you call people from Australia to Zimbabwe? Talk with Paul Dickson, author of Labels for Locals
Jan 13: "You'll have fun with this," says Betty Stein in Fort Wayne News-Sentinel on the new book Another Word A Day

Dec 5: Online Chat with Michael Wex: Discuss the joy of Yiddish with Michael Wex, author of "Born to Kvetch"
Nov 15: VOA News: What Does It Say About You if Your Doppelganger Is Facinorous?
Nov 1: Virtual book signing of "Another Word A Day" by Anu Garg.
Oct 23: Another Word A Day: A new book from Anu Garg, the founder of Wordsmith.org.
Sep 30: Seattle Times on "Another Word A Day"
Mar 14: Eleven, onze, once, elva, undici... some people see double but today we're seeing eleven (from Old English endleofan, literally "one left" after counting 10). Today marks the eleventh anniversary of the founding of Wordsmith.org

Dec 14: Transcript of an online chat with Richard Lederer
Sep 26: Wall Street Journal: A Word a Day -- Say, `Gasconade' -- Keeps Boredom at Bay
Sep 20: AWAD Live at Columbus Metropolitan Library
Aug 1: The transcript of today's chat with Barbara Walraff, a senior editor at the Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court
May 21: The Wordsmith's Tale: A Story on Rediff.com
Apr 9: The transcript of today's chat with Sreenath Sreenivasan, Professor, Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism
Apr 2: The transcript of today's chat with Lisa Simeone, Host, Weekend All Things Considered, National Public Radio
Mar 14: Put AWAD on your Web site
Feb 26: The transcript of today's chat with David Crystal, author of the Cambridge Encyclopeda of the English Language and other books
Feb 8: The transcript of today's chat with Steven Pinker, MIT Professor and author of a number of books on language
Jan 31: The transcript of today's chat with Wendalyn Nichols, Editorial Director, Random House Reference
Jan 17: The transcript of today's chat with Robert Hollander and Jean Hollander, translators of Dante's Inferno
Jan 10: The transcript of today's chat with Joseph Bruchac, poet, novelist, story-teller, and publisher

Dec 19: The transcript of today's online chat with John Simpson, Chief Editor, the Oxford English Dictionary
Dec 11: Announcing online chat at Wordsmith. Our first guest will be John Simpson, Chief Editor, OED
Dec 2: Smithsonian Magazine features Wordsmith in December 2000 issue
May 2: AWAD is USA Today Hot Site
Mar 14: Happy Sexennium, AWAD. Come join our new bulletin board, Wordsmith Talk

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