Back in the mid-late 1990s, I was subscribed to Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day mailing list, and I loved it. But as the volume of my email grew, I had to cut back and I ended my subscription five years ago or so.

I’m happey to say that I’m subscribed once again as of today. I notice that he now has both a “free” (with ads) and a “premium” (no ads) service. I signed up with the free service for now, but I’ll probably get the premium service eventually.

AWAD is, as far as I know, the original wordserver on the Internet. There are lots of immitations now. But AWAD is the best. I loved when they would have “theme” weeks. Things like: words derived from the names of characters in fiction stories.

If you love words, etymologies, etc., and you are interested in subscribing to the mailing list, you can get more information at:

http://wordsmith.org/awad/index.html

They always have good words, not cheesy words that any eighth grader might now. Incidentally, today’s word is debouch.