The inside layout was designed by Nancy Priest and implemented in FrameMaker 5.0 by Mike Sierra. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. This colophon was written by Nancy Kotary. The animal on the cover of Lingo in a Nutshell is a macaw, a usually brightly colored South American parrot. Many of these often noisy parrots can be trained to mimic human speech.
All macaws have large beaks, with the upper portion overlapping the lower.
Their diet consists mainly of seeds, nuts, and fresh fruit. They have four toes, two pointing forward and two backward. Larger macaws have a lifespan of up to 75 years. Macaws generally nest in treeholes or crevices in rocks. Males and females are similarly colored.