<div>Finally there’s a word for it: <i>Fidgital</i>—excessively checking one’s devices.<i>Martyrmony</i>—staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular “That Should Be a Word” feature in the<i>New York Times Magazine</i>, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms.<i>That Should Be a Word </i>is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick’s wittiest wordplays—more than half of them new—arranged in ingenious diagrams detailing their interrelationships.<br><br>Complete with definitions,? pronunciations, usage examples, and ?illustrations, <i>That Should Be a Word</i> ?features words on our obsession with ?food: <i>carbiter</i>—one who asserts that? someone else cannot be hungry. On? social media, like<i>twiticule</i>—to mock? someone in 140 characters. On the ?modern family, like <i>brattle</i>—to discuss one’s children at great length, which leads to words like <i>spamily</i>—Facebook or Twitter updates about kids—and <i>spawntourage</i>—a group of approaching strollers.<br><br>From highlighting the profound financial anxiety of a post-recession society (<i>bangst</i>) to mocking the hyper-vain celebrity circle that abstains from anything? of import (<i>celebracy</i>),<i>That Should Be a Word</i> delves deep into all the most humorous, and maddening, aspects of life in the 21st century.</div>