Anu Garg
Indian-born writer and linguaphile
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Open the dictionary and feast on the words. The bigger the better — an unabridged is the best — and discover that world where each word is a world in itself. Mark Twain, that master of words, once jocularly observed about a dictionary, "I have studied it often, but I never could discover the plot." Well, a dictionary is a place where each word has a plot, a whole history behind it. Each word has its own biography — we call it etymology. They change, they evolve, they adapt, they die, and they get revived.
—Anu Garg, Indian-born writer and linguaphile, A Word a Day, 2002
Posted on January 23, 2001 at 5:41 PM
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