Awarded "Best of 2011" in Arts & Letters by Kirkus Review

By special request, this BLACK-AND-WHITE "Classroom Edition" is now available. The cover is still COLOR.

KIRKUS REVIEW (posted in its entirety)

The English language gets pulled up by its roots for purposes of entertainment, enlightenment and vocabulary building in this sprightly linguistic romp.

The author, an English professor, introduces readers to some of the knottier words in the language through an approach that mixes analysis, history and lots of engaging anecdotes. His method is to seize on dusty old lexical...