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What did you say?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I HAVE TONGUE and will travel, so I run around the country speaking to groups of teachers, students, librarians, women's...
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), 07/01/09 by Richard Lederer · More from publication -
Punderful etymologies
Scoffing at puns is a conditioned reflex, and through the centuries groan-ups have aimed a steady barrage of libel and slander at pun ladies and...
Word Ways, 05/01/09 by Richard Lederer · More from publication -
The literary Lincoln
LONG AGO, THERE LIVED in the backwoods of the then-Middle West a young man who had been born in a log cabin in 1809. He grew up without schooling...
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), 01/01/09 by Richard Lederer · More from publication -
There's nothing trivial about the U.S. presidency
WHAT TWO presidents died on the very same day? Our second and third commanders in chief, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, political rivals, then...
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), 07/01/08 by Richard Lederer · More from publication -
Attractive opposites
Opposites attract. Opposites also attract people who love to mess around with word meanings and letters. Here's a brief logological taxonomy of 15...
Word Ways, 11/01/06 by Richard Lederer · More from publication -
On Palindromes
The ancient and popular Art of the Palindrome blazes out from the epicenter of the universe of letter play. Alistair Reid expresses what may be the...
Word Ways, 08/01/06 by Richard Lederer · More from publication -
Conan the Grammarian
Call me Conan the Grammarian: Undangler of Participles, Destroyer of Gratuitous Apostrophes, Protector of Pronoun Case. I know that I am not alone...
Verbatim, 09/22/05 by Richard Lederer · More from publication -
A foul ghoul soul loves good blood food
What's unusual about these limericks? What's unusual about these limericks? Don't look back. With your hand to the plough, Don't stop...
Word Ways, 05/01/05 by Richard Lederer · More from publication -
Confessions of a verbivore
I am a wordstruck, word bethumped, word besotted, wordaholic, unrepentant verbivore. I am a wordstruck, word bethumped, word besotted,...
Verbatim, 03/22/05 by Richard Lederer · More from publication -
Foxen in the Henhice
Recently I undertook an extensive study of American dialects, and a friend told me about a farmer named Eben Pluribus who spoke a most unusual kind...
Verbatim, 12/22/04 by Richard Lederer · More from publication
