Word Nerd: More Than 17,000 Fascinating Facts about Words
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From the best-selling author of '14,000 Things To Be Happy About' comes a compendium of more than 18,000 fascinating facts about words. Practical enough to use as a dictionary and fun enough to use as a conversation piece, 'Word Nerd' is aimed at the nerd in all of us.
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