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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... tongues . While some of these other species possessed the physical apparatus for speech , only with Homo sapiens did speech tremble into birth . The birth of language is the dawn of humanity , and each is as old as the other . The ...
... tongue . Thomas Fuller once wrote , " Birds are entangled by their feet and men by their tongues . " The humor and appeal of very bloopers lie , in part , in our awareness 4 WORD WIZARD.
... tongues . It is the artlessness of 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 ...
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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 |