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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... kind of bisociative thinking we experience with puns . But while plays on words exploit the density of language , any denseness residing in bloopers is acci- dental . Arizona State University humorologists Donald F. and Aileen Pace ...
... kind of person walks through a field with eyes peeled for four - leaf clovers , blooper snoopers trek through newspapers , magazines , and books looking for petty crimes and misdemeanors against our language . Many of these verbal ...
... warbled , " There's a kind of hush all over the world tonight , ” not “ There's a can of fish all over the world tonight . " But the fish are better . And if Davy Crockett was " killed in a bar 17 JOSÉ , CAN YOU SEE ?
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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 |
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