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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... Linguist Fractured English Get Thee to a Punnery The Giant Book of Animal Jokes ( with James D. Ertner ) Have a Punny Christmas Literary Trivia ( with Michael Gilleland ) A Man of My Words The Miracle of Language More Anguished English ...
... Linguistic Independence 64 The Case for Short Words The Way We Word 76 70 Sound and Sense 85 93 Stamp Out Fadspeak ! Crazy English English Is a Crazy Language The Antics of Semantics Janus Words 118 99 101 111 Foxen in the Henhice 124 ...
... Linguistic Independence , " " Stamp Out Fadspeak ! " " 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 ...
... linguistic lapses that makes them so endearing and makes us feel superior . We laugh when we see and hear verbal rugs pulled out from under someone else . After all , we would never commit such blunders — or would we ? Just as we thrill ...
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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 |