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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... eyes peeled for four - leaf clovers , blooper snoopers trek through newspapers , magazines , and books looking for petty crimes and misdemeanors against our language . Many of these verbal hunter - gatherers wing me mere grammar errors ...
... ' the girl with kaleidoscope eyes . ' That's a line from ' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds . " That's also a classic mondegreen - a mishearing of oft - used words , resulting in a misinterpretation of the lyrics of 16 José, Can You See?
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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 |