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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... Vocabulary 181 190 Words , Words , Words 198 Weird 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 ...
... 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 ( and in the case of puns , collusions ) will explode into ...
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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 |