,
, FIRST ANCHOR EBOOK EDITION, MARCH 2014
Copyright © 1949, 1978 by Norman Lewis
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random
House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto,
Penguin Random House companies. Originally published in the United States by
Doubleday, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 1949. This edition originally
published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, in 1979
Anchor and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.
Extract from “Be a Perfect Speller in 30 Minutes,” by Norman Lewis, copyright © 1946, by
Esquire, Inc. Reprinted from February 1946 Coronet.
Extract from “How to Spell a Word,” by Norman Lewis, © copyright 1948, by Esquire, Inc.
Reprinted from January 1949 Coronet.
Extract from “Mind Over Grammar,” by Norman Lewis, © copyright 1947, by Fawcett
Publications, Inc.
Extract from “Can You Catch a Misspelled Word,” by Norman Lewis, © copyright 1948, by
Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Extract from “Watch That Word,” by Norman Lewis, © copyright 1948, by Fawcett
Publications, Inc.
eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-81749-5
www.anchorbooks.com
v3.1
, TO:
My family and friends, who accepted, without apparent
resentment and with barely audible complaint, my complete self-
isolation during the many months in which I totally and shamefully
neglected them while working on the revision of this book.
Especially: Mary; Margie Baldinger and the kids; Debbie and
Allen Hubbert; Milton Lewis; Karen and Bob Kopfstein; Leonard
Vogel, one of America’s great painters, and Shirley; gourmet cooks
David and Janice Potts; Seymour and Nan Prog; Ruth and Leo; Dave
and Jan Hopkins; Carol and Marvin Colter; Bob Finnerty, my chess
opponent, who says that winning is all that counts; Doris Garcia;
Eleanor and Robert Poitou; Mary El and Dick Gayman—
Walter Garcia, Len Grandy, Don Jenkins; Sally Landsburg; Ted
and Margaret Snyder; Jean Bryan; Rhoda and Ralph Duenewald;
George and Phyllis Juric; Bob and Monica Myers, Tony and Kathy
Garcia, Jean Kachaturian; Margie Lopez and Jo Watson—
Myrtle and Ace, Donny and Estelle, Helen and Ben, Judy and Bob,
Doris and Muriel, Danny and Mary; in memoriam, Max and Frances
—
Larry Scher, Chuck Nichamin, Sue Sullivan, Rosemary and Debbie
Greenman, Alice Hessing, Dave and Lynn Bisset, Danny Hernandez,
John Arcadi and Peggy Arcadi, Norm Ashley, Aaron Breitbart—
Lorin and Gloria Warner, Marty and Ros Chodos, Mahlon and
Gwen Woirhaye, Leon and Kay East, Marijane and Paul Paulsen,
Helen and Russ Hurford, Elior and Sally Kinarthy—
Carolyn Russell, Rod Sciborski, Vera Laushkin, John Hahn, Liz
Johnson, Leonora Davila, Jim Hawley, Jerry Lenington, Jay
Loughran, Susan Obler, Marilyn Houseman, Rita Scott, Chris
Hamilton, Joan Nay, Mary Lewis, Virginia Sandoval, Hazel Haas—
The sta and all my students at Rio Hondo College—
, FIRST ANCHOR EBOOK EDITION, MARCH 2014
Copyright © 1949, 1978 by Norman Lewis
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random
House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto,
Penguin Random House companies. Originally published in the United States by
Doubleday, a division of Random House LLC, New York, in 1949. This edition originally
published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, in 1979
Anchor and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.
Extract from “Be a Perfect Speller in 30 Minutes,” by Norman Lewis, copyright © 1946, by
Esquire, Inc. Reprinted from February 1946 Coronet.
Extract from “How to Spell a Word,” by Norman Lewis, © copyright 1948, by Esquire, Inc.
Reprinted from January 1949 Coronet.
Extract from “Mind Over Grammar,” by Norman Lewis, © copyright 1947, by Fawcett
Publications, Inc.
Extract from “Can You Catch a Misspelled Word,” by Norman Lewis, © copyright 1948, by
Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Extract from “Watch That Word,” by Norman Lewis, © copyright 1948, by Fawcett
Publications, Inc.
eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-81749-5
www.anchorbooks.com
v3.1
, TO:
My family and friends, who accepted, without apparent
resentment and with barely audible complaint, my complete self-
isolation during the many months in which I totally and shamefully
neglected them while working on the revision of this book.
Especially: Mary; Margie Baldinger and the kids; Debbie and
Allen Hubbert; Milton Lewis; Karen and Bob Kopfstein; Leonard
Vogel, one of America’s great painters, and Shirley; gourmet cooks
David and Janice Potts; Seymour and Nan Prog; Ruth and Leo; Dave
and Jan Hopkins; Carol and Marvin Colter; Bob Finnerty, my chess
opponent, who says that winning is all that counts; Doris Garcia;
Eleanor and Robert Poitou; Mary El and Dick Gayman—
Walter Garcia, Len Grandy, Don Jenkins; Sally Landsburg; Ted
and Margaret Snyder; Jean Bryan; Rhoda and Ralph Duenewald;
George and Phyllis Juric; Bob and Monica Myers, Tony and Kathy
Garcia, Jean Kachaturian; Margie Lopez and Jo Watson—
Myrtle and Ace, Donny and Estelle, Helen and Ben, Judy and Bob,
Doris and Muriel, Danny and Mary; in memoriam, Max and Frances
—
Larry Scher, Chuck Nichamin, Sue Sullivan, Rosemary and Debbie
Greenman, Alice Hessing, Dave and Lynn Bisset, Danny Hernandez,
John Arcadi and Peggy Arcadi, Norm Ashley, Aaron Breitbart—
Lorin and Gloria Warner, Marty and Ros Chodos, Mahlon and
Gwen Woirhaye, Leon and Kay East, Marijane and Paul Paulsen,
Helen and Russ Hurford, Elior and Sally Kinarthy—
Carolyn Russell, Rod Sciborski, Vera Laushkin, John Hahn, Liz
Johnson, Leonora Davila, Jim Hawley, Jerry Lenington, Jay
Loughran, Susan Obler, Marilyn Houseman, Rita Scott, Chris
Hamilton, Joan Nay, Mary Lewis, Virginia Sandoval, Hazel Haas—
The sta and all my students at Rio Hondo College—
