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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... verbs of speaking : " And God said , Let there be light ; and there was light .... And God called the light Day , and the darkness he called Night .... And God said , Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters .... And God ...
... verbs of speaking and naming . God doesn't just snap his fingers to bring the 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 ...
... verb to bloop began to sig- nify the operating of a radio set to cause it or other sets to emit howls and whistles — perhaps an echo of our reactions to physical or verbal howlers . About a decade later , the nouns bloop and blooper ...
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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 |