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What's among the "season's best language books"? Get a signed bookplate for it!

The Boston Globe called it one of the "season's best language books" and Publishers Weekly said "Garg's latest little gem will be enjoyed by anyone with a thing for words, language and history."

Have you checked it out yet? It's a book with an unusual title:

The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two:
The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words
   by Anu Garg
   published by Plume (an imprint of Penguin Group)
ISBN 9780452288614

Make it a present for someone or yourself
and
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Presents, I often say, endear absents. -Charles Lamb, essayist (1775-1834)

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