BOOKISH

Are You a Wordie or a Grammando?

I’m both

Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence
Published in
4 min readMay 7, 2024

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A cartoon of an adoption pound for books. Several books are in the cage, but one book is outside the bars, smiling, seeming to be trying very hard to be adopted.
AI image by ChatGPT 4 from my prompt

When I hear about a book that I think I’d like to read, I order it from my local library. When it comes in, I drive down to get it. Yesterday I picked up “Says Who” by Anne Curzan, a book about the conflicts of grammandos and wordies today and earlier — promising to be a fascinating book for anyone who writes or is otherwise a lover of words.

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Anthony (Tony/Pcunix) Lawrence
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Retired Unix Consultant. I write tech and humor mostly but sometimes other things. See my Lists if your interests are specific.