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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... John Shore ) Crazy English The Cunning 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 ...
... Confessions of a Verbi- vore " from A Man of My Words ( 2003 ) ; and “ On Your Marks ! " from Comma Sense : A Fun - damental Guide to Punctuation ( 2005 ) , with John Shore . Introduction or more than four decades I've had the joy xiv.
... John Milton . Milton wrote Paradise Lost . Then his wife died , and he wrote Paradise Regained . During the Renaissance America began . Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic ...
... John Smith was responsible for all this . One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the En- glish put tacks on their tea . Also , the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps . Finally , the colonists won ...
... John Wilkes Booth , a supposingly insane actor . This ruined Booth's career . Meanwhile in Europe , the Enlightenment was a reason- able time . Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy . Gravity was invented by ...
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The Loom of Language | 37 |
Crazy English | 99 |
The Write Way | 139 |
The Joys of Lex | 179 |
Making the Alphabet Dance | 219 |