Gavin Greene, the writer responsible for the wedding column in a national newspaper, falls in love with a travel writer and tries to get between her and her Australian boyfriend before he has to write an article about her wedding.

This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words. David Crystal's lively analysis encompasses everyday situations (wedding speeches, business presentations, storytelling) as well as the oratory of great public gatherings. Crystal focuses on the here and now of eloquent speaking--from pitch, pace, and prosody to jokes, appropriateness,...