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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... 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 old as the other . The appearance of language made us hu- man , and our ...
... faces were not fully language . Not only do we possess language ; we are language . Richard Lederer San Diego , California richard.lederer@pobox.com Words at Play This page intentionally left blank In the xviii INTRODUCTION.
... possesses more than three times the number of words of any other vocabulary . The formula is a simple one : The more words a language owns , the greater the like- lihood that collisions will occur and that the witness to such collisions ...
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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 |