Anu Garg
Anu Garg (born April 5, 1967 in Meerut , 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 to the United States on a scholarship when he was 25. Anu Garg lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter . Until 2005 he worked as a computer scientist, today he is a freelance author.
His mother tongue was Hindi and he did not learn English until middle school, but was fascinated by Indian loanwords in English at an early age and then found out that the English language is extremely rich in loanwords from a wide variety of languages.
Anu Garg describes himself as a linguaphile. He created the English word linguaphile himself in 1994, and in 2000 it was included in the American Heritage Dictionary.
In the United States, he began sending emails with definitions of words to family and friends he found interesting. This became the A.Word.A.Day mailing list in 1994. From Monday to Friday, A.Word.A.Day brings you an unused English word with pronunciation, definition (s) and example sentences.
A.Word.A.Day was an unimaginable success. The mailing list has its own ISSN , ISSN 1524-6884 . It grew from 200 subscribers in less than ten years to over 500,000 subscribers in 200 countries. There are teachers who have made it compulsory reading. The mailing list had articles in USA Today , Wall Street Journal, and Reader's Digest
In 2002 Anu Garg's first book, A Word A Day , came out, which explains unfamiliar words in a similar style to the mailing list. The book became a bestseller and in 2005 the follow-up volume Another Word a Day was published . In November 2007, the book entitled The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words ISBN 9780452288614 came out.
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 an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words , 2007, ISBN 0-4522-8861-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Etymology of Linguaphile (English)
- ↑ Sample mail from A.Word.A.Day (English)
- ↑ He spread the words, one e-mail at a time, USA Today, February 1, 2003
- ↑ The wondiferous Wizard of Words, Readers'Digest 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Garg, Anu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian-American author, computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5th 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meerut , India |