The Miracle of Language
Richard Lederer
232 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0671028111
ISBN13:
Language: English
Publish: April 1, 1999
20th CenturyEducationLanguageLinguisticsNonfictionReferenceScienceWriting
Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America’s “Wizard of Idiom” (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements…
Welcome to Richard Lederer’s beguiling celebration of language — of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him “In Praise of English,” and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare’s day as “of small reatch” has become the most widely spoken language in