Word Wizard: Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word MagicSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 1 квіт. 2007 р. - 272 стор. 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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... creates Adam ?; " And out of the ground the lord God formed every beast of the field , and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature , that was ...
... created by le- gions of bloopists who fabricate wacky words , lacerated lingo , ridiculous rhetoric , ditzy diction , fractured phrases , eviscerated expressions , idiotic idioms , mislocated modi- fiers , mixed - up metaphors , skewed ...
... created from an apple tree . One of their children , Cain , once asked , “ Am I brother's son ? " Noah's wife was called Joan of Ark . Lot's wife was a pillar of salt by day and a ball of fire by night . my God asked Abraham to ...
... created myths . A myth is a female moth . One myth says that the 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 ...
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Crazy English | 99 |
The Write Way | 139 |
The Joys of Lex | 179 |
Making the Alphabet Dance | 219 |
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