Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780312334949
An anguished language expert provides the latest collection of unfortunate typos, tragically misplaced modifiers, and other hilarious language snafus.
Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780941711814
A collection of humorous language bloopers including misspelled words, bungled translations, mangled modifiers, and much more.
Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Dell
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 1994-09-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0440215773
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.
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ISBN : 9780812480504
Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 26,7 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 143913894X
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.
Author : Cristiano Furiassi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1614514682
This volume focuses on how English, through false Anglicisms, influences several European languages, including Italian, Spanish, French, German, Danish and Norwegian. Studies on false Gallicisms are also included, thus showing how English may be affected by false borrowings.
Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1423612035
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
Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1423622782
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.
Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2009-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781423610540
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.
Author : Richard Lederer
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1429906456
After 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.
