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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... " Confessions of a Verbi- vore " from A Man of My Words ( 2003 ) ; and “ On Your Marks ! " from Comma Sense : A Fun - damental Guide to Punctuation ( 2005 ) , with John Shore . Introduction or more than four decades I've had the joy xiv.
... punctuation , pronouns to pronunciation , and diction to dictionaries . It's been a hoot- and it just got hootier because my friends at St. Martin's Press have asked me to gather a collection of my best and most pop- ular language ...
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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 |