Here’s a like-ly story: Avoid clichés like the plague
July 23, 2022
Do you know someone who drinks like a fish and sweats like a pig? Actually, fish don’t drink very much, although they appear to,
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Do you know someone who drinks like a fish and sweats like a pig? Actually, fish don’t drink very much, although they appear to,
Recent articles in the U-T and Sports Illustrated detail how pickleball has become the rage in San Diego and across our fair land. A
My hairline is in recession, my waistline shows signs of inflation, and these conditions are plunging me into a deep depression. The other day,
DEAR RICHARD: “Lead lives that integrate love and power, too.” I saw this headline in a recent U-T and wondered about the first two
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