There are times when it’s best to stop the presses!
May 10, 2025
The typographical error Is a slippery thing and sly. You can hunt till you are dizzy, But somehow it will get by, Till the forms
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
The typographical error Is a slippery thing and sly. You can hunt till you are dizzy, But somehow it will get by, Till the forms
One of my favorite newspaper corrections reads: “It was incorrectly reported last Friday that today begins T-shirt Appreciation Week. It is actually Teacher Appreciation Week.”
Ben Duke, of Philadelphia, has sent me a photograph of the front of a store in Brierly Hall, England. The sign reads: Goodwyns Furniture Ltd.
These days, we hear and read a lot about battalions of government workers getting fired. The meaning of “fired” (“to discharge someone from a job”)
DEAR RICHARD: Thank you for giving me the bird in your recent column about our feathered friends. I just wish I could be your wing
The 2025 San Diego Bird Festival took wing on February 25 and will return to earth tomorrow, March 2. The annual Festival includes 150 programs
This coming Monday we celebrate Presidents’ Day, which honors the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, both born in February. On Presidents’ Day we
Ulysses S. Grant, our 18th president, entered the earthly stage as Hiram Ulysses Grant. When his name was mistakenly entered on the West Point register
One of the fringe benefits of being an English or History teacher is receiving the occasional jewel of a student blooper in an essay. 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.