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Author: Richard Lederer
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Published: 1995-03
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780671709426
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this rollicking romp through the bountiful world of words (Minneapolis Star), the bestselling author of Crazy English and More Anguished English takes readers on a logoleptic thrill ride through the beauties and perplexities of the language, spiking the text with irresistible mind scramblers.
Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-05-11
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 143913894X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.
Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1996-11
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0671000365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of humorous language errors from newspaper headlines, politician's remarks, court transcripts, insurance forms, signs, and classified ads.
Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-05-11
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1439139407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaster 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 history: English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate.
Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2014-02-06
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1423612035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGet Thee to a Punnery proves that the pun is mightier than the sword . . . and here are sidesplitting puns of every color, stripe and persuasion to suit every whim. Even if you don't know that your humerus is your funny bone, this is the book for you. The Time of the Signs: On a diaper service truck: Rock a dry baby. On a plumber's service truck: A flush is better than a full house. Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a communist plot! -Edgar Bergen Quiche me-I'm French! Hangover-the wrath of grapes Work is the ruin of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde
Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2014-02-06
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 1423637712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of Anguished English presents a compendium of fascinating facts and anecdotes about some of literature’s greatest authors and works. Author and English teacher Richard Lederer is one of the world’s foremost lovers of language and literature. In this endlessly engaging volume, he collects some of the most curious trivia about world-renowned authors and poets as well as their many immortal creations. The perfect gift for bibliophiles, Richard Lederer’s Literary Trivia sheds surprising new light on the books and writers we love.
Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2009-02-19
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1423610520
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresidential Trivia: The Feats, Fates, Families, Foibles, and Firsts of Our American Presidents Revised and Updated from the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia book—Presidential Trivia. In it you’ll find all the detailsabout the lives of the United States presidents. It answers such questions as: Who was the first president to be assassinated? Who was the first president to be born an American citizen? Who was the first to be impeached? It also answers less important but certainly interesting questions such as: Who was our fattest president? Our tallest? Who played golf? Who played poker?
Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-11-13
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780312334949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anguished language expert provides the latest collection of unfortunate typos, tragically misplaced modifiers, and other hilarious language snafus.
Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1429906456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter a multi-decade career of stimulating readers to appreciate and laugh at the glories and oddities of our English language, beloved language maven Richard Lederer has collected his very best and most popular pieces in Word Wizard. In this career-capping anthology the reader will find essays that enlighten, inspire, and tickle the funny bone. From his hilarious bloopers to his hymns of praise to the English language, these essays are the brightest gems of a storied career. Word Wizard includes a new introduction, prefaces for each essay, sprightly verse, and material never before published in Leader's language books. With classic chapters such as "The World According to Student Bloopers," "English Is a Crazy Language," and "The Case for Short Words," and shiny new essays such as "The Way We Word" and "Add Wealth to Your Vocabulary," Word Wizard is sure to delight language lovers and Lederer fans everywhere.
Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-07-10
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780312342555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFans of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" will delight in this collection from one ofAmerica's favorite grammarians. 15 illustrations.
