Challenging Words for Smart People

Overview

Challenging Words for Smart People is not for everyone. But if you are heels-over-head nuts about language and have a passion for snatching significance from the mass data swirling around us, you will share in its pages some sublime adventures in re-creation-al linguistics. Each chapter in Challenging Words for Smart People states a challenge. In the process of meeting those tests, your axons, dendrites, ganglia, and synapses will get quite a workout as you engage in a series of push-ups of the mind and aerobics of the brain. Throughout his career, Dr. Richard Lederer has epitomized "learning dressed up to have fun." His mission is to impose order on chaos and sprinkle fairy dust on the mundane. Enter this great banquet hall of words and you will taste the abundant harvest of our bountiful, multifoliate English language.

Author Biography

Richard Lederer is the author of more than thirty-five books, including Anguished English, Amazing Words, Crazy English, Get Thee to a Punnery, and The Gift of Age. He is a former teacher at St. Paul's School in Concord, NH, where he taught English and media for twenty-seven years. He has been named International Punster of the Year and Toastmasters International's Golden Gavel winner. He lives in San Diego.