Wordcatcher (50 page)

Photo by Jo Beaton

Phil Cousineau has been a wordcatcher since he was a boy growing up in Wayne, Michigan, a little Civil War-era town outside Detroit and reading Homer, Mark Twain, Ray Bradbury,
Superman
comics, and baseball biographies. From the age of 16 he has been a freelance writer, and for the past twenty years a filmmaker, creativity consultant, and youth sports coach. He has published over twenty-five books, written or co-written eighteen documentary films, and contributed to forty-two other books. Currently, he is the host and co-writer of the nationally broadcast television series
Global Spirit
, on LINK TV.

Copyright © 2010 by Phil Cousineau.

 

All rights reserved. Except for brief passages quoted in newspaper, magazine, radio, television, or online reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

 

Published in the United States by Viva Editions, an imprint of Cleis Press Inc., 2246 Sixth St., Berkeley, California 94710.

 

 

eISBN : 978-1-573-44550-4

 

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Cousineau, Phil.

Wordcatcher : an odyssey into the world of weird and wonderful words / Phil Cousineau.

p. cm.

1. English language--Etymology--Dictionaries. I. Title.

PE1580.C68 2010

422.03--dc22

2010004252