W. Terrence Gordon is the internationally acclaimed biographer of Canadian media analyst Marshall McLuhan (1997’s Escape into Understanding). His popular books in the For Beginners series on McLuhan and Sanssure will soon be joined by Linguistics for Beginners; and he is currently at work on a biography of the mysterious language scholar Charles Kay Ogden. With IN TWO WORDS, Gordon returns to one of his first loves – telling the stories of words and their usage. He lives on the shores of Nova Scotia’s beautiful Bedford Basin, and teaches French, Italian, and linguistics at Dalhousie University.