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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... MOTHER OF EIGHT MAKES HOLE IN ONE . No way could I improve the receptionist's voice - mail advice “ Please leave a message . The doctors are out of the office or else on the phone and me , too . " No way could I come close to match- ing ...
... mother of Achilles dipped him in the river Stynx until he became intolerable . Achilles appears in the Iliad , by Homer . Homer also wrote the Oddity , in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey ...
... 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 . " Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg ...
... mother and child , Holy Vincent , so tender and mild I nominate Richard Stans , Art , Harold , good Mrs. Shirley Murphy , Round John Virgin , Vincent , a reindeer named Olive , and that cross - eyed bear named Gladly for a Pullet Sur ...
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תוכן
The Loom of Language | 37 |
Crazy English | 99 |
The Write Way | 139 |
The Joys of Lex | 179 |
Making the Alphabet Dance | 219 |