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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... wrote , " The equator is an imaginary lion that runs around the world forever " or the politician who protested to a reporter , “ Your question is much too supposi- tory ! " These masterpieces of mangled messages are far funnier than ...
... wrote it . How blun- derful that one young scholar's innocent malapropizing of cir- cumnavigate and accidental pun on clipper can beget such nautical naughtiness . This creation is one of the greatest bloopers ever blooped . A young ...
... wrote , " In 1957 , Eugene O'Neill won a Pullet Surprise . ” One of the fringe benefits of being an English or history teacher is receiving the occa- sional Pullet Surprise of a student blooper in an essay or answer to a test question ...
... wrote in hydraulics . They lived in the Sarah Dessert , which they cultivated by irritation and over which they traveled by Camelot . The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere , so certain areas of the ...
... wrote the Oddity , in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey . Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice . They killed him . Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock . In ...
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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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