Anu Garg, an author and speaker, is best known as the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising word lovers from an estimated 200 countries. His books explore the joy of words. He has authored A Word A Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words, Another Word a Day and The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two: The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words. He also writes about language-related issues for magazines and newspapers and speaks internationally.He has been profiled in The New York Times, USA Today, Reader's Digest, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, National Public Radio, and BBC, among others. Biography Garg was born in 1967 in rural India. His school took place under the shade of a mango tree, where a few broken sticks of chalk and a blackboard made by painting a flat piece of wood with soot completed his classroom. The only language he knew was Hindi, and he did not see a library until he went to colleg

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