Richard Lederer onderzoekt de complexiteit en vreugden van menselijke communicatie door zijn uitgebreide geschriften over taal, geschiedenis en humor. Zijn werk biedt lezers een verrijkend perspectief op de kracht van woorden, vaak doordrenkt van scherpe observatie en humor. Door zijn productieve publicaties en frequente radiobijdragen deelt hij een diepe passie voor taalkunde en een uniek vermogen om vermaak te vinden in alledaagse taal.
Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our common language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed-Up Metaphors . . . from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers . . . it's a collection that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter.
Fans of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" will delight in this collection from one ofAmerica's favorite grammarians. 15 illustrations.
In 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.
Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun
This celebration of verbal ingenuity on impolite subjects includes puns of every sort, spoonerisms, Tom Swifties, and a grand Dirty Dictionary.
Book by Morice, Dave