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Jul 06, 2020 Ned Ludd rated it really liked it

'I am so smart. S-M-R-T.' H.S.
Recommended. Exercise that grey matter between those ears!

May 21, 2017 Lucas Michael rated it it was amazing

If there is a six stars category, this book - Word Workout - by Charles Harrington Elster will get that vote from me!

His book is that good and well written for learning and absorbing new words. Definitely worth its weight in Gold.

I have both the kindle and audio version of this title, keeping them close to me in my Kindle & Audible book hoard as my treasured reference companion.

Dec 26, 2020 Chris rated it it was amazing

I kept this book by my bed for many months and read it a little bit each night. I love new words and the examples and origins of the words discussed were helpful. On a practical level, I find it hard to actually learn more vocabulary words from a book like this. I find the app, Vocab.com, to be incredibly helpful and fun in my quest to build my vocabulary.

I really enjoyed many words and the origins. Unfortunately now I know there's a word for what I want to say but I can't find that word because it's difficult to find words via definitions. :( I really enjoyed many words and the origins. Unfortunately now I know there's a word for what I want to say but I can't find that word because it's difficult to find words via definitions. :( ...more

Reading this book felt like an arduous journey at times, but one with fascinating revelations after every other step. In addition to learning literally hundreds of words that I have never heard before, I was able to learn about the etymologies and correct usage of many words that I thought I knew. Highly recommended to anyone who loves to read and learn about amazing, and sometimes shocking origins of words.

Well worth it, if you are into reading reference books--which I have always loved to do.

Charles Harrington Elster is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile—a lover of words.

He is the author and narrator of the audio vocabulary-building program Verbal Advantage and the book by the same name. His other books include Tooth and Nail and Test of Time, vocabulary-building novels for high school students preparing to take the college entrance exams; There's a Word for It, a lighthearted look

Charles Harrington Elster is a writer, broadcaster, and logophile—a lover of words.

He is the author and narrator of the audio vocabulary-building program Verbal Advantage and the book by the same name. His other books include Tooth and Nail and Test of Time, vocabulary-building novels for high school students preparing to take the college entrance exams; There's a Word for It, a lighthearted look at unusual—and unusually useful—words; and The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, which William Safire of The New York Times hailed as "the best survey of the spoken field in years." In 2005 Harcourt published What in the Word? Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions About Language, and in 2006 Houghton Mifflin released the second edition of The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations, featuring nearly 200 new entries.

Charlie was pronunciation editor of the seventh and eighth editions of Black's Law Dictionary and a consultant for Garner's Modern American Usage. He is a guest contributor to the "On Language" column of The New York Times Magazine, and his articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and other publications.

Charlie has also been talking about language on the radio since 1985. He has been interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition, and All Things Considered and been a guest on hundreds of radio shows around the country. For five and a half years he cohosted a weekly public radio talk show on language called A Way with Words.

Charlie was born in New York City in 1957 and earned his B.A. cum laude from Yale in 1981. He lives in San Diego with his wife and two daughters.

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