Word Nerd: Dispatches from the Games, Grammar, and Geek Underground - Softcover

Williams, the first and only executive director of the National Scrabble Association, joyfully and enthusiastically recounts his unlikely 25-year tenure as the official national spokesman for the world-famous word game. ...Casual gamers will find this light read to be a fun escape, while avid grammarians and fellow word nerds will devour it in a single sitting.

For Scrabble fans--and they are everywhere, young and old, male and female--this walk down memory lane with the former National Scrabble Association (NSA) executive director is informative, funny, anecdotal, and bittersweet.... [A]ficionados will treasure this book for its appendixes: 'offensive' words; short Q, J, X, and Z words; 'Important Vowel Dumps' and more.--Eloise Kinney

The former executive director of the National SCRABBLE® Association describes the inner-workings of tournaments and the top players, provides a list of words that were once banned from the game and discusses the dearth of allowable vowel-less words. Illustrations.