A Monumental Time to Honor Lincoln’s Literary Genius
May 28, 2022
On May 30, 1922, a century ago, a great crowd, including Abraham Lincoln’s only surviving son, 78-year-old Robert Todd Lincoln, gathered for the dedication of
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On May 30, 1922, a century ago, a great crowd, including Abraham Lincoln’s only surviving son, 78-year-old Robert Todd Lincoln, gathered for the dedication of
For 10 years now, I’ve had the luminous privilege of sharing “Lederer on Language” with you, my verbivorous readers. I am unstintingly grateful to
If you reconfigure the word safari by moving the i to the front, the new words you form are is afar. Our world-famous Safari
Fifty years ago, on May 10, 1972, our world-famous Safari Park opened its gates to the public. A half century later, 2 million people
DEAR RICHARD: Have you ever explored the phenomenon I call “parasitic suffixes”? I can bring just two to mind: -athon and -aholic, taken, of
When we describe someone as smart as a whip, we are likely to make them feel pleased as punch. But what is so smart
Having written more than 60 books and thousands of articles and columns, I, your fly-by-the-roof-of-the mouth, user-friendly language columnist, confess to be afflicted with
The other day, I got pulled over by the Grammar Police. They ticketed me for Reckless Punctuation, Faulty Subject-Verb Agreement, Splitting My Infinitives, Terminal
Words and people have a lot in common. Like people, words are born, grow up, get married, have children and even die. And, like