O, My Word (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798988176176)

Our English language has more words than any other. Some174,000, according to the current Oxford Dictionary. So, try this: pick a word, think about it, see where it takes you. That's the game I played with myself for this book-only I didn't choose these words myself. I gathered them from friends, family, random acquaintances. "Gimme a word, any word," I asked. Here's what happened.