Giveaway: That Should Be a Word

that-should-be-a-word-siteThat Should Be a Word comes out in April from our Workman Publishing cousins, but now’s your opportunity to enter for a chance to win a copy before it’s even published. (Wait, there should be a word for that!)

Finally there’s a word for it: Fidgital — excessively checking one’s devices. Martyrmony — staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular “That Should Be a Word” feature in the New York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms. That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick’s wittiest wordplays — more than half of them new — arranged in ingenious diagrams detailing their interrelationships.

Complete with definitions, pronunciations, usage examples, and illustrations, That Should Be a Word features words on our obsession with food: carbiter—one who asserts that someone else cannot be hungry. On? social media, like twiticule—to mock someone in 140 characters. On the modern family, like brattle  —to discuss one’s children at great length, which leads to words like spamily — Facebook or Twitter updates about kids — and spawntourage — a group of approaching strollers.

From highlighting the profound financial anxiety of a post-recession society (bangst) to mocking the hyper-vain celebrity circle that abstains from anything? of import (celebracy), That Should Be a Word delves deep into all the most humorous, and maddening, aspects of life in the 21st century.

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16 comments on “Giveaway: That Should Be a Word

  1. I am such a word-nerd, so this book sounds awesome!! Thank you for the chance to win a copy.

  2. Fascinating topic, perfect for sharing with my daughter to engage in discussions! Thank you for the opportunity!

  3. I love anything related to words.

  4. title sounds interesting

  5. Sounds like a humorous read.

  6. Great book! Fingers crossed! Thanks!!

  7. Great book! Fingers crossed! Thanks!!

  8. This book sounds like a wordsmith’s dream. I am so glad to learn about it and have a chance to win a copy!!

  9. This book sounds like a wordsmith’s dream. I am so glad to learn about it and have a chance to win a copy!!

  10. Love any books to do with “words”!

  11. Love any books to do with “words”!

  12. Love any books to do with “words”!

  13. Oh, no, it was a DIFFERENT “Get Fuzzy!” Oh well, they’re all brilliant

  14. Oh, no, it was a DIFFERENT “Get Fuzzy!” Oh well, they’re all brilliant

  15. Am I late? All grubbed out? I’m starving for a new word, got any left?

  16. Am I late? All grubbed out? I’m starving for a new word, got any left?

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