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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... Bible , we note the frequency and importance of 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 ...
... Bible means when it says , " And God said , Let us make man in our own image , after our likeness . " Like God , man is a speaker and a namer . If your mythos is science , you believe that many early ho- minid species , some of them ...
... Bible is full of interesting caricatures . In the first book of the Bible , Guinness , Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree . One of their children , Cain , once asked , “ Am I brother's son ? " Noah's wife was called Joan of ...
... Biblical times . Solomon , one of David's sons , had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines . The Greeks were a highly sculptured people , and without them we wouldn't have history . The Greeks invented three kinds of columns ...
... Bible and removable type . Sir Walter Raleigh discovered ciga- rettes and started smoking . And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a hundred - foot clipper . The government of England was a limited mockery . Henry 11 THE WORLD ...
Contents
The Loom of Language | 37 |
Crazy English | 99 |
The Write Way | 139 |
The Joys of Lex | 179 |
Making the Alphabet Dance | 219 |