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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... example , in the original version of " The World According to Student Bloopers , " Julius Caesar expires with these immortal words upon his lips : " Tee hee , Brutus ! " Years after the publication of that fractured chronicle of the ...
... example and the nominative he in the second constitute nonstandard usage , but faulty grammar doth not a blooper make . No double entendres ( or " double Ninten- dos , " as somebody once blipped ) exist here . I also receive gifts of ...
... example of a heroic couplet . Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cer- vantes . He wrote Donkey Hote . The next great author was John Milton . Milton wrote Paradise Lost . Then his wife died , and he wrote Paradise ...
... examples of global gabble , but I always hold in mind a certain serial riddle : What do you call a person who speaks three lan- guages ? Trilingual . What do you call a person who speaks two languages ? Bilingual . And what do you call ...
... examples of outlandish gibberish from hotels around the world : • In a Bucharest hotel lobby : The lift is being fixed for the next day . During that time we regret that you will be unbearable . • In a Paris hotel elevator : Please ...
Contents
The Loom of Language | 37 |
Crazy English | 99 |
The Write Way | 139 |
The Joys of Lex | 179 |
Making the Alphabet Dance | 219 |