Background
Espy, Willard Richardson was born on December 11, 1910 in Olympia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Harry Albert and Helen Medora (Richardson) Espy.
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Get a daily dose of wordplay all year: 366 days worth of poems, puns, and puzzles (includes February 29 for leap years). You will enjoy anagrams, acrostics, palindromes, and pangrams. This is the best of Espy's two classic almanacs.
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An assortment of writings, including limericks, riddles, puns puzzles, tongue twisters, poetry, malapropisms, palindromes, Tom Swifties, and Spoonerisms, for each day of the year.
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(Etymology of Words That Once Were Names)
Etymology of Words That Once Were Names
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(Say It My Way, by Espy, Willard R.)
Say It My Way, by Espy, Willard R.
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(1981, hardcover edition, Simon & Schuster, NY, 256 pages.)
1981, hardcover edition, Simon & Schuster, NY, 256 pages.
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Willard Espy has been compared to Lewis Carroll for his lighthearted and fanciful treatment of words. In this latest book, Mr. Espy has created a preposterous wonderland, a garden such as never was. Besides its flowers, Espy's Garden is inhabited by creatures large and small, lovable and quarrelsome, beautiful and ugly, each incarnating some figure of speech (or trope) - that magical device that extends the range of language to infinity. Metaphor, hyperbole, alliteration, pleonasmus, litotes, tmesis - these are but a sprinkling of the unforgettable Garden folk. Espy explains more than 200 rhetorical devices, dozens of them in verses sung by the tropes themselves. Each verse is followed by a definition, a comment, and examples of the usage in history, literature, and everyday speech. Thirty of the figures come visually alive in Teresa Allen's charming and witty illustrations, and word games abound throughout the book.
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The longtime resource of choice for poets, song-writers, and language lovers, Willard R. Espy's acclaimed rhyming dictionary has been updated and expanded to include more than 100,000 rhyming words (thousands new to this edition), divided into single, double, and triple rhymes. The updater, Orin Hargraves, has also expanded and clarified the guide to using the book. Useful new entries include: trademarked words, such as Bake-Off, Faberge, and Winnebago; common acronyms and abbreviations, such as ASAP, DVD, and P2P, which often have simple rhymes; many biographical and geographical names, such as Bristol, Hormuz, Jackson, and Tristan; common new technological terms, such as blog and wi-fi; and, slang or informal words, such as lemme, gotta, and shoulda. A 100-page primer gives readers the essentials of poetic technique, and a glossary defines 9,000 of the most difficult words to rhyme with. Entertaining, clever, and easy to use, this is the authoritative reference on rhyme, by a master of wordplay.
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The essential rhyming dictionary, updated and expanded, for both writers and students. A longtime favorite resource for poets, songwriters, and language lovers, Willard R. Espy's acclaimed rhyming dictionary has been updated and expanded to include more than 100,000 rhyming words divided into single, double, and triple rhymes. The updater, Orin Hargraves, has also expanded and clarified the guide to using the book. Useful new entries include: trademarked words, such as Bake-Off, Faberge, and Winnebago; common acronyms and abbreviations, such as ASAP, DVD, and P2P, which often have simple rhymes; many biographical and geographical names, such as Bristol, Hormuz, Jackson, and Tristan; common new technological terms, such as blog and wi-fi; and slang or informal words, useful to writers of light verse and songs, such as lemme, gotta, and shoulda. A 100-page primer gives readers the essentials of poetic technique, and a glossary defines 9,000 of the most difficult words to rhyme with. Entertaining, clever, and easy to use, this is the authoritative reference on rhyme, by a master of wordplay.
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(Willard Espy Manipulates words every which way in several...)
Willard Espy Manipulates words every which way in several Languages, collets similar verbal eccentricities from like-minded wordsmiths, and preserves them for posterity.
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Published by the Seattle Book Co., softcover, has appendix of WA place names with definition. Rare book of prose using the town/place names of many of Washington's more colorful town names
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Espy, Willard Richardson was born on December 11, 1910 in Olympia, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Harry Albert and Helen Medora (Richardson) Espy.
Bachelor, University Redlands, 1930. Student, University Paris, Sorbonne, 1931.
Reporter, Tulare (California) Times, 1932; reporter, Brawley (California) News, 1932; assistant editor, World Tomorrow, New York City, 1933-1935; copy editor, L'Agence Havas, 1937-1940; manager promotion public relations, Reader's Digest, 1941-1957; producer, interviewer radio program, Personalities in Print, 1957-1958; creative advertising director, Famous Artists Schools, 1958-1963; publisher, Charter Books, 1963-1966; public relations consultant, New York City, 1963-1975; panelist, Harper Dict. Contemporary Usage, 1976, 83.
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(Willard Espy has been compared to Lewis Carroll for his l...)
(The longtime resource of choice for poets, song-writers, ...)
(The essential rhyming dictionary, updated and expanded, f...)
(1981, hardcover edition, Simon & Schuster, NY, 256 pages.)
(Etymology of Words That Once Were Names)
(Say It My Way, by Espy, Willard R.)
(1978 Potter Publishing; Paperback)
(Published by the Seattle Book Co., softcover, has appendi...)
(Book by Espy, Willard R.)
(1986 MACMILLAN HARDCOVER)
(2 Updated)
(Updated)
Contributing editor: Harvard Mag, 1978-1985, Writer's Digest, 1985-1992. Author: Bold New Program, 1951, The Game of Words, 1972, An Almanac of Words at Play, 1975, Oysterville: Roads to Grandpa's Village, 1977, The Life and Works of Mr. Anonymous, 1977, O Thou Improper, Thou Uncommon Noun, 1978, Say It My Way, 1980, Another Almanac of Words at Play, 1980, Have a Word on Me, 1981, Espygrams, 1982, A Children's Almanac of Words at Play, 1982, Word Puzzles, 1983, The Garden of Eloquence, 1983, Words to Rhyme With, 1986, The Word's Gotten Out, 1989, Omak Me Yours Tonight, 1993, Skulduggery on Shoalwater Bay, 1998, A New Almanac of Words at Play, 1999.
Contributor articles to periodicals.
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, National Book Critics' Circle, Authors Guild. Clubs: Century Association, Dutch Treat, Book Table, Coffee House (New York City).
Married Ann A. Hathaway, 1933. 1 child, Ian Alden; married Hilda S. Cole, 1940. Children: Mona Margaret, Freddy Medora, Joanna Page, Cassin Richardson, Jefferson Taylor (deceased).
Married Louise J. Manheim, 1962.
