Howard Richler

Howard Richler is a Canadian logophile well-known to word nerds like himself. From 1992-2006 he wrote a weekly language column in the Montreal Gazette and now pens monthly language columns in Lexpert and Senior Times.

He also writes regularly for a host of newspapers and magazines such as National Post, Globe & Mail and Toronto Star.

Here is a list of his eight books:

The Dead Sea Scroll Palindromes

Take My Words: A Wordaholics Guide to the English Language

Global Mother Tongue: The Eight Flavours of English

Bawdy Language: How a Second-rate Language Slept its Way to the Top

Can I Have a Word With You?

Strange Bedfellows: The Private Lives of Words

How Happy Became Homosexual and other mysterious semantic shifts

Wordplay:Arranged and Deranged Wit

He is working on two other books. They are:

There's a Mouse in my Muscle!: Fun Facts & Great Games for Word-Loving Kids

Brain Dancing : A Semi-Guaranteed Program to Ward Off Dementia.

You can check out his language musings on his Wordnerd blog @ http://howarderichler.blogspot.com and social media fans will find his comments on Facebook and Twitter. He also posts daily word puzzles on Facebook to challenge fellow logophiles.

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