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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... guage , " " In Praise of English , " " The Case for Short Words , and " A Man of Fire - New Words " from The Miracle of Language ( 1991 ) ; “ Sound and Sense , " " Beautiful English " ( folded into " Sound and Sense " ) , " English Is a ...
... guage , which possesses more than three times the number of words of any other 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 ...
... guages ? Trilingual . What do you call a person who speaks two languages ? Bilingual . And what do you call a person who speaks one lan- guage ? American . In other words , I commend our foreign friends for making the effort at elegant ...
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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 |