From the News & Notables section of the Fall/Winter 2007 edition of Marianopolis College magazine:

Clipping reproduced for authenticity (it included a shot of the book cover elsewhere on the page). Text below for readability and search engine friendliness.

Charles Hodgson 1978

Charles Hodgson graduated from Marianopolis in 1978 and although he didn’t exactly drift aimlessly through life as a space hardware engineer, environmental consultant or entrepreneur, he feels now that he’s finally found a niche. The niche is in words.

For two years he’s been generating a word-a-day in podcast format that has gained him a faithful audience of listeners and blog readers with more than 3 million downloads and now he has also authored a book.

Although the book title Carnal Knowledge might seem a little racy, the content is actually of interest to almost everyone. The subtitle is perhaps more descriptive: A Navel Gazer’s Dictionary of Anatomy, Etymology, and Trivia.

The book is full of information on two types of words that apply to our bodies, those that we know very well like elbow or nostril, and others for parts of ourselves that we may have been staring at in the mirror for years but never even knew had a name.

Read more on Charles’ blog: www.navelgazersdictionary.com