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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... human race , an English teacher in Kansas reported that one of her students had written , " Eat you , Brutus ! " in the very same con- text . I couldn't insert that superior version into the original narrative , but I have made the ...
... humanity , and each is as old as the other . The appearance of language made us hu- man , and our humanity ensured the survival of language . We human beings have always had language because before we had it we were not fully human and ...
... human race would become the fuel that runs the motor 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 ...
... human being . Martin Luther was nailed to the church door at Wittenberg for selling papal indulgences . He died a horrible death , being excommunicated by a bull . It was the sculptor Donatello's interest in the female nude that made ...
... Later , he nailed ninety - six Protestants in the Watergate Scandal , which ush- ered in a new error in the anals of human history . Aside from giving us the kick of hearing someone else 151 THE WORLD ACCORDING TO STUDENT BLOOPERS.
תוכן
The Loom of Language | 37 |
Crazy English | 99 |
The Write Way | 139 |
The Joys of Lex | 179 |
Making the Alphabet Dance | 219 |