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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... glish put tacks on their tea . Also , the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps . Finally , the colonists won the war and no longer had to pay for taxis . The United States was founded by four fathers ...
... Pullet Sur- prise . But the ultimate winner , who received her prize posthu- morously , of course , must be ... Lady Mondegreen ! In my anthologies of accidental assaults upon the En- glish 17 21 JOSÉ , CAN YOU SEE ?
... glish language , I've noticed that readers especially enjoy the skewed idioms , bubble - off - plumb word choices , and ab- surdly literal translations of fractured English abroad . I too chuckle at inspired examples of global gabble ...
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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 |