Anu Garg

Anu Garg ( born April 5, 1967 in India) is an Indian- American computer scientist, founder of a very popular mailing list about the meaning of words and bestselling author.

Anu Garg grew up in rural India. He studied computer science and came up with 25 years through a grant to the United States. Anu Garg lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle. Until 2005, he worked as a computer scientist, now he is a free lance writer.

His mother tongue was Hindi and English, he only learned in middle school, but was soon fascinated by Indian loanwords in English and then found out that the English language is very rich in loan words from different languages.

Anu Garg describes himself as a Lingua -philes. The English word linguaphile he has created himself in 1994, and in 2000 it was included in the American Heritage Dictionary.

In the United States he began e- mails with definitions of words to send to family and friends that he found interesting. It was 1994, the mailing list A.Word.A.Day. From Monday to Friday brings a ungebräuchliches A.Word.A.Day each English word with pronunciation, definition (s) and sample sentences.

A.Word.A.Day became an unexpected success. The mailing list has its own ISSN, ISSN 1524-6884. From 200 Subscribers she grew up in less than ten years to more than 500,000 subscribers in 200 countries. There are teachers who have declared it to be required reading. The mailing list had articles in the USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and Reader 's Digest

2002 came out Anu Garg's first book, A Word A Day, which explains in a similar style as the mailing list unfamiliar words. The book became a bestseller and 2005, the sequel Another Word a Day appeared. In November 2007, the book was titled The Dord, the Diglot, and to Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange out Origins of Common and Not -So- Common Words ISBN 9780452288614.

Works

  • A Word A Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words, 2002, ISBN 0-4712-3032-4
  • Another Word a Day. An All- New Romp through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English, 2005, ISBN 0-4717-1845-9
  • The Dord, the Diglot, and to Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not -So- Common Words, 2007, ISBN 0-4522-8861-4
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