Book Review: Word Spy: The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture

I had not heard of author Paul McFedries, who has written mostly about computers; or the website he runs, WordSpy.com. I knew only that this book had a few positive blurbs, was available for free, and concerned English. That was enough to draw me to it.

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My current reading is of Frederik Pohl's Man Plus. Little did I realize when I started that Pohl would've turned 100 late last month.