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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... things of the universe into ex- istence . He speaks them into being and then names each one . And what happens when God creates Adam ?; " And out of the ground the lord God formed every beast of the field , and every fowl of the air ...
... things that we know we know . There are known unknowns . That is to say , there are things that we know we don't know . But there are also unknown unknowns . There are things we don't know we don't know . ” California governor Arnold ...
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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 |