Word Wizard: Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word MagicSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 1 באפר׳ 2007 - 272 עמודים 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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... America . No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews . For information , address St. Martin's Press ...
... American English in the mid 1920s as a description of a wounded fly ball looped just past the reach of the infielders . Just as bloopers in baseball can make fielders look like bum- bling clowns , verbal bloopers can mortify those who ...
... American Heart Association , Balance for Life provides three meals a day plus snacks . " In these artifacts we may recognize that loathe should be loath and tenants should be tenets , but these inadver- tent substitutions do not conjure ...
... America began . Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic . His ships were called the Nina , the Pintacolada , and the Santa Fe . Later the Pilgrims crossed the ocean , and this ...
... America's greatest precedent . Lincoln's mother died in infancy , and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his very own hands . When Lincoln was president , he wore only a tall silk hat . He said , " In onion there is strength ...
תוכן
The Loom of Language | 37 |
Crazy English | 99 |
The Write Way | 139 |
The Joys of Lex | 179 |
Making the Alphabet Dance | 219 |