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The Bride of Anguished English

Author : Richard Lederer

Publisher : St. Martin's Press

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 16,45 MB

Release : 2007-04-01

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1429906391

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For years wordsmith and punster Richard Lederer has charmed and delighted fans with his bestselling "Anguished English" series. In his funniest book yet, readers will again cherish the author's latest chronicle of the goofs and gaffes and fluffs and flubs of our anguished language. And the best part? Everything in here actually occurred! Nothing has been made up! Bloopers from foreign restaurants include: * "Our wines leave you nothing to hope for." * "As for the tripe served here, you will be singing its praises to your grandchildren on your deathbed." Excerpts from students' twisted history papers include: * "World War I made the people so sad that it brought on the Great Depression." * "America was founded by four fathers. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Decoration of Independence, which says that all men are cremated equal and are well endowed by their creator." Hilarious illustrations by Jim McLean make The Bride of Anguished English the perfect book for anyone who loves English with all its blunders and bloopers and quips and quirks.



The Revenge of Anguished English

Author : Richard Lederer

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 30,23 MB

Release : 2007-11-13

Category : Humor

ISBN : 9780312334949

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Book Description

An anguished language expert provides the latest collection of unfortunate typos, tragically misplaced modifiers, and other hilarious language snafus.



Anguished English

Author : Richard Lederer

Publisher : Gibbs Smith

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 15,23 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Humor

ISBN : 9780941711814

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A collection of humorous language bloopers including misspelled words, bungled translations, mangled modifiers, and much more.



More Anguished English

Author : Richard Lederer

Publisher : Dell

Page : 209 pages

File Size : 10,32 MB

Release : 1994-09-04

Category : Humor

ISBN : 0440215773

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All the joy of the best-selling Anguished English is back! 2,000 all-new side-splitting flubs, fluffs, and hilariously funny accidental assaults on our language.



The Revenge of Anguished English

Author : Richard Lederer

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 28,44 MB

Release : 2005-04

Category : Humor

ISBN : 0312334931

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Book Description

An anguished language expert provides the latest collection of unfortunate typos, tragically misplaced modifiers, and other hilarious language snafus.



Structural Ambiguity in English

Author : Dallin D. Oaks

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing

Page : 560 pages

File Size : 33,11 MB

Release : 2010-05-27

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1441141375

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Structural Ambiguity in English is a major new scholarly work that provides an innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities. Most ambiguity scholarship is concerned with disambiguation-the process of making what is ambiguous clear. This book takes the opposite approach as it focuses on describing the features in the English language that may contribute towards the creation of structural ambiguities, which form the core of some of the best word-plays found in advertising, comedy and marketing. Oaks utilizes a systematic and comprehensive inventory approach that identifies individual elements in the language and their distinctive behaviors that can be manipulated in the deliberate creation of structural ambiguities. In doing so he also provides authentic examples to illustrate the concepts he presents. This book will appeal to researchers and academics interested in the structure of the English language, usage, pragmatics, communication, natural language processing, editing, and humor studies as well as those in marketing, advertising, or humor writing.



Comma Sense

Author : Richard Lederer

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 164 pages

File Size : 11,75 MB

Release : 2007-07-10

Category : Humor

ISBN : 9780312342555

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Book Description

Fans of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" will delight in this collection from one ofAmerica's favorite grammarians. 15 illustrations.



Get Thee to a Punnery

Author : Richard Lederer

Publisher : Gibbs Smith

Page : 198 pages

File Size : 15,55 MB

Release : 2014-02-06

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1423612035

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Get 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



American Trivia

Author : Richard Lederer

Publisher : Gibbs Smith

Page : 147 pages

File Size : 23,62 MB

Release : 2012-02-01

Category : Games & Activities

ISBN : 1423622782

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Learn fascinating facts about the history, culture, leaders, and heroes of our great nation in this comprehensive volume of U.S. trivia. This land is your land—so you should know a thing or two about it. American Trivia is chock full of fascinating facts, historical riddles, and puzzling quizzes about the people, places, and events that make this nation great. Divided into sections on national origins, presidents, historical figures, and more, this book offers a crash course in essential Americana. In these pages, you will learn the origin of the national anthem, stories about national monuments such as the Liberty Bell and Statue of Liberty, fascinating information about the country’s heroes and inventors, and more. As co-authors Richard Lederer and Caroline McCullagh demonstrate, American trivia is anything but trivial.



Presidential Trivia

Author : Richard Lederer

Publisher : Gibbs Smith

Page : 156 pages

File Size : 15,1 MB

Release : 2009-09

Category : Humor

ISBN : 9781423610540

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From the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia book-Presidential Trivia. In it you'll find all the details about the lives of the United States presidents. It answers such questions as : Who was the first president to be assassinated? Who was the first to be impeached? It also answers less important but cerainly interesting questions such as: Who was our fattest president? Our Tallest? Who played golf? Who played poker? Filled with games, anagrams, poems, speeches, and an abundance of tidbits, details, and fascinating facts, this book is perfect for the novice to the history buff.