Anu Garg: Wording

“The best way to enrich vocabulary is organically, by coming across words in their natural habitat, taking the time to learn about them, their histories, and making lifelong friends with them.”

Anu Garg

The Philomath Speaks An Interview with Anu Garg (Dec 15, 2009) http://www.nas.org/articles/The_Philomath_Speaks_An_Interview_with_Anu_Garg

Way , History , Nature , Learning

“A right word is the most direct route between two minds.”

Anu Garg

A.Word.A.Day (Feb 17, 2014) http://wordsmith.org/words/escutcheon.html

“We're all surrounded by words like air, and we all need them even though they are often invisible, just like air.”

Anu Garg

2002-11-28
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/28garg.html?src=pm&pagewanted=all
A Word of the Day Keeps Banality at Bay
The New York Times
Katie Hafner

“There are exotic species of words jumping out inviting me to play. I weave them into a theme, a garland of words.”

Anu Garg

2000-12-01
Smithsonian
WARNING: Log-o-phil-ia is Addictive
Rudolph
Chelminski

“[T]hat's how a language grows. Old words die - or take on a new life. New words appear. Language wordstock is replenished, refreshed, and the language remains vibrant and serviceable, ready to describe new concepts, ideas, and objects. Many language purists object to this way of growth. But we have to remember that just as yesterday's liberal is often tomorrow's conservative, in many cases, what was considered slang in the past, eventually acquires respectability.”

Anu Garg

Life , Way , Idea , Appearance

“A word in the head is worth two in the book.”

Anu Garg

A.Word.A.Day (May 7, 2007) http://wordsmith.org/words/stormy_petrel.html

Books

“For as long as I can recall, I enjoyed reading. I literally read books from cover to cover. Then I started wondering where words come from. Who made them up? Who said that that opening in a wall was to be called a window? Then I discovered that each word comes with a biography. These words have fascinating stories to tell, if only we take the time to listen. For example, the word window comes from Old Norse in which it meant wind's eye. How much more poetic can you get?”

Anu Garg

2013-03-23
The Hindu
Word Hungry
Suneetha
Balakrishnan
http://www.webcitation.org/6FYejBgFV

Books , Time , Reading

“English never met a word it didn't like.”

Anu Garg

On English's propensity to borrow words from other languages, quoted in * 2000-12-01
Smithsonian
WARNING: Log-o-phil-ia is Addictive
Rudolph
Chelminski

“Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.”

Anu Garg

Way , Understanding , Learning , Change

“If you torture words enough, they'll confess to anything.”

Anu Garg

On Finding Great Anagrams http://wordsmith.org/anagram/tips.html

“Only Anu Garg, the founder of Wordsmith. org, can make word facts this much fun.”

Anu Garg

Samantha
Puckett
St. Petersburg Times
2003-01-19
Writing Life

Making love