The Miracle of Language

Author: Richard Lederer
Edition: Revised
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0671028111

The Miracle of Language

Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements. Download The Miracle of Language from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. .
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 history:
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Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian C

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