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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... Way * 139 Literature Lives ! 141 Still Hot off the Press 148 A Man of Fire - New Words Writing Is ... 164 153 How I Write 166 Cut the Verbal Fat 170 On Your Marks ! 174 Lex of Confessions of a Verbivore Add Wealth to Your.
... Writing Is ... , " " How I Write , " and " 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 ...
... writing t've about language - from puns to 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 ...
... writer of the time was Chaucer , who wrote many po- ems and verses and also wrote literature . Another tale tells of William Tell , who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head . The Renaissance was an age in ...
... writer of the Renaissance was William Shake- speare . Shakespeare never made much money and is famous only because of his plays . He lived at Windsor with his merry wives , writing tragedies , comedies , and errors . In one of ...
Contents
The Loom of Language | 37 |
Crazy English | 99 |
The Write Way | 139 |
The Joys of Lex | 179 |
Making the Alphabet Dance | 219 |