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. |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 30
... Sound and Sense 85 93 Stamp Out Fadspeak ! Crazy English English Is a Crazy Language The Antics of Semantics Janus Words 118 99 101 111 Foxen in the Henhice 124 129 A Uni - Verse of Language The Write Way * 139 Literature Lives ! 141 ...
... Sound and Sense , " " Beautiful English " ( folded into " Sound and Sense " ) , " English Is a Crazy Language , " " The An- tics of Semantics , " " Janus Words , " " Foxen in the Henhice , " and " A Uni - Verse of Language " from Crazy ...
... ensured the survival of language . We human beings have always had language because before we had it we were not fully human and the sounds that escaped from the holes in hominid faces were not fully language xvii INTRODUCTION.
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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 |