There’s a Lot of Fun in Making the Alphabet Dance
March 23, 2019
From alpha to omega, You can bet the alphabet, Like a painting done by Degas, Will leap and pirouette. See dancing words, entrancing words,
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
From alpha to omega, You can bet the alphabet, Like a painting done by Degas, Will leap and pirouette. See dancing words, entrancing words,
St. Patrick’s Day will cavort through a merry jig tomorrow. So today I am throwing some bull — not just any kind of bull, but
The 50th annual San Diego Union-Tribune Countywide Spelling Bee will take place this coming Thursday, March 14, at the Town & Country Hotel and Resort
The San Diego Festival of Science & Engineering will blast off with Expo Day at Petco Park today, 10 am to 5 pm. Expo Day
DEAR RICHARD LEDERER: An assignment by my senior high school English teacher gave me a life-long verbivore hobby — looking up etymologies of words. She
The publishers of Oxford dictionaries have recently identified 20 words that are especially difficult to spell. Here they are alphabetically, but in their commonly misspelled
DEAR RICHARD LEDERER: In a sequence of adjectives, English speakers and writers know in what order the adjectives should go, as in “a big, beautiful
Black History Month honors the contributions of African Americans to U.S. history. This celebration began as Negro History Week and was founded by Carter G.
Tomorrow, January 27, will be National Bible Sunday, a time meant to celebrate the power of the Bible in so many lives. The word bible