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Dances with Words
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July 22-24
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American History for Everyone
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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
Richard's Latest Column
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and right here
The difference between ‘lie’ and ‘lay’ is a grave matter
DEAR RICHARD: Have you ever seen this tombstone?: Here lies (not “lays”) Billie Woody Robins Reed English Teacher –Bill Plachy, San Marcos Your tombstone is a new one to me, and I am delighted to add it to my cemetery of occupational epitaphs that demonstrate how some folks take their jobs with them to the very end. I hope that readers will dig the humor and won’t find the plots too deep and the comedy too grave: Epitaph on a dentist: Stranger: Approach this spot with gravity. John Brown is filling his last cavity. Epitaph on a lawyer: Goembel, John E. “The defense rests.” Epitaph on an auctioneer: Born 1828 Going! Going!! Gone!!! 1876 My favorite in this category is
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