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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Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word Magic Richard Lederer. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction XV Xiii Words at play Blooper Snooper 3 1 The World According to Student Bloopers José , Can You See ? Lost in ...
Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word Magic Richard Lederer. Acknowledgments T " hanks to my publishers for permission to include ... Student ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Bloopers " and " Lost in Translation " from Xiii Acknowledgments.
... Student Bloopers " ( folded into “ The World According to Student Bloopers " ) from The Bride of An- guished English ( 2000 ) ; " Pun Your Way to Success , " " A Decla- ration of Linguistic Independence , " " Stamp Out Fadspeak ...
... Student Bloopers , " Julius Caesar expires with these immortal words upon his lips : " Tee hee , Brutus ! " Years after the publication of that fractured chronicle of the human race , an English teacher in Kansas reported that one of ...
Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word Magic Richard ... student who wrote , " The equator is an imaginary lion that runs around the ... bloopers ? One clue may come from the origin of the word itself . Blooper first ...
Contents
The Loom of Language | 37 |
Crazy English | 99 |
The Write Way | 139 |
The Joys of Lex | 179 |
Making the Alphabet Dance | 219 |