num_pages: 232
description: 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 
language: English
title: The Miracle of Language
titlecomplete: The Miracle of Language
genres: Linguistics, Language, Education, Reference, 20th Century, Science, Writing, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 259
publisher: Gallery Books