Word Wizard: Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word MagicSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007 M04 1 - 272 pages After a multi-decade career of stimulating readers to appreciate and laugh at the glories and oddities of our English language, beloved language maven Richard Lederer has collected his very best and most popular pieces in Word Wizard. In this career-capping anthology the reader will find essays that enlighten, inspire, and tickle the funny bone. |
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... answer is on the tip of our tongues . While some of these other species possessed the physical apparatus for speech , only with Homo sapiens did speech tremble into birth . The birth of language is the dawn of humanity , and each is as ...
... answer to a test question . For Anguished English , my first language book for the larger public , I pasted together the following history of the world from genuine , authentic , certifiable , and un- retouched student bloopers ...
... answer , my friends , is blowin ' in the wind . " " I've thrown a custard in her face " is not the national an- them for clowns . It's a mondegreen for " I've grown accustomed to her face , " in My Fair Lady . " Return December , bad ...
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Contents
The Loom of Language | 37 |
Crazy English | 99 |
The Write Way | 139 |
The Joys of Lex | 179 |
Making the Alphabet Dance | 219 |