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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... at play Blooper Snooper 3 1 The World According to Student Bloopers José , Can You See ? Lost in Translation 16 22 It's a Punderful Life 27 Pun Your Way to Success 31 ∞ The Loom of Language * 37 The Miracle of Language Contents.
... ( 1995 ) , with Richard Dowis ; and “ Inky Pinky " from The Play of Words ( 1990 ) . Wyrick & Company : " The World According to Student ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Bloopers " and " Lost in Translation " from Xiii Acknowledgments.
... Translation " from Anguished English ( 1987 ) and " It's a Punderful Life " from Get Thee to a Punnery ( 1988 ) . Merriam - Webster , Inc .: “ Ana Gram , the Juggler , " " The Palindromedary , " and " A Circus of Poems " from The Word ...
... Translation t is said that someone at the United Nations once fed a common English saying into a translating computer . The machine was asked to translate the statement into Chinese , then into French , and finally back into English ...
... translating into Russian and then back into English the bromide " The spirit is willing , but the flesh is weak ... translated word for word from one language to another . As people around the world have come to recognize and use English ...
Contents
The Loom of Language | 37 |
Crazy English | 99 |
The Write Way | 139 |
The Joys of Lex | 179 |
Making the Alphabet Dance | 219 |