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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... Words 201 Conan the Grammarian 206 Inky Pinky 212 Making the Alphabet Dance Ana Gram , the Juggler 221 The Palindromedary 229 A Circus of Poems 238 * 219 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments T " hanks to The Joys of Lex * 179.
... poems in these pages : >> Pocket Books / Simon & Schuster : " The Miracle of Lan- guage , " " In Praise of English , " " The Case for Short Words , and " A Man of Fire - New Words " from The Miracle of Language ( 1991 ) ; “ Sound and ...
... Poems " from The Word Cir- cus ( 1998 ) . Oxford University Press : " Weird Words " from my fore- word to Erin McKean's More Weird and Wonderful Words ( 2003 ) . AARP : “ The Way We Word ” from AARP TheMagazine March / April 2005 ; St ...
... the opportunity to rediscover the delights of these essays and poems and to improve those creations . You can imagine that as the years have rolled by , I have come upon items that I wish I had included in my printed X V Introduction.
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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 |