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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... speaker and a namer . If your mythos is science , you believe that many early ho- minid species , some of them coexisting , preceded the tenure of Homo sapiens . Today we take for granted that we are the only hominid on Earth , yet for ...
... of my career — the riff I am most often requested to perform as a speaker and the progenitor of four additional books in the Anguished English series . 8 The World According to Student Bloopers he inhabitants of ancient.
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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 |