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Item Details
Title:
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WORD NERD - DISPATCHES FROM THE GAMES, GRAMMAR, AND GEEK UNDERGROUND
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By: |
John D. Williams |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£15.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0871407736 |
ISBN 13: |
9780871407733 |
Publisher: |
W W NORTON & CO LTD |
Pub. date: |
12 May, 2015 |
Pages: |
256 |
Description: |
A zany, one-of-a-kind memoir brings to life the obsessions, madness, and glory of the SCRABBLE(r) culture from living-room players to world champions." |
Synopsis: |
Beginning his career on a lark as a freelance contributor to SCRABBLE(r) News, John D. Williams Jr. fell down a rabbit hole inhabited by gamers, geeks, and the grammar police. Having served as executive director of the National SCRABBLE(r) Association for twenty-five years, Williams now takes readers inside the byzantine, dog-eat-dog world of top tournament players, creating a piquant (sevenletter word, 68 points!) work that is part pop-cultural history, part anthropological fieldwork. Whether reminiscing about past national champions (the highest recorded SCRABBLE(r) score is 830), helpfully providing a list of offensive words once banned from SCRABBLE(r), opining on the number of vowelless words that are allowable (cmw for Welsh deep-walled basin, or nth for the ultimate degree), noting how long it takes a word to get into the SCRABBLE(r) dictionary, or why there remain more male than female champions, Williams has created a memorable work that will fascinate both amateurs and seasoned experts al |
Publication: |
US |
Imprint: |
Liveright Publishing Corporation |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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