NOW AVAILABLE:
Richard’s latest book
American History for Everyone
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Richard’s revealing interview in the
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov 2nd
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“Someone should declare Richard Lederer a national treasure” — Richmond Times-Dispatch
“America’s Wittiest Verbalist” — Book of the Month Club
“The true King of Language Comedy” — Sidney Sheldon
“America’s Top Pun” — Chicago Tribune
“Columnist Extraordinaire” — The New Yorker
“Lederer beguiles and bedazzles” — Los Angeles Times
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The great English etymologist Owen Barfield once wrote, “Words may be made to disgorge the past that is bottled up inside of them, as coal and wine, when we kindle or drink them, yield up their bottled sunshine.” When we uncap the sunshine that is stored inside the many words that relate to the Christmas season, we discover that the
Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. If you are heels over head (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and your nose can run and your feet can smell.
