wordnerd
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | author |
| Location | montreal, quebec |
| Introduction | Howard Richler is a Canadian language columnist. He wrote the weekly Speaking of Language column in The Montreal Gazette from 1992 to 2006 and his Word Nerd column has appeared since 2006 in The Senior Times. Howard also regularly writes for other newspapers and magazines, including Globe & Mail, and National Post, and the legal magazine Lexpert. He has appeared on countless radio and television shows, including All in a Weekend, Pamela Wallin Live and Richler Inc. In between all this, he has written seven books The Dead Sea Scroll Palindromes Take My Words –A Wordaholic’s Guide to the English Language A Bawdy Language – How a Second-Rate Language Slept Its Way to the Top Global Mother Tongue – The Eight Flavours of English Can I Have a Word With You? Strange Bedfellows: The Private Lives of Words. His book From Happy to Homosexual and other mysterious semantic shifts was published by Ronsdale Press 2013 and his latest book Wordplay:Arranged and Deranged Wit was published by Ronsdale in April 2016. |
| Interests | words, words, words |
| Favorite Movies | Raging Bull; No Country For Old Men, Goodfellas, Vertigo |
| Favorite Music | rock, blues, folk |
| Favorite Books | Disgrace, Confessions of Nat Turner, Herzog, Human Stain, Beloved, Mr Mani, Saturday, Barney's Version, The Master, The Good Doctor, Enduring Love |