How Cartoons and Comic Strips Shape Our Language
July 14, 2018
Next week, Comic-Con returns to San Diego, where, back in August 1970, it began life as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in the
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
Next week, Comic-Con returns to San Diego, where, back in August 1970, it began life as the Golden State Comic Book Convention in the
“Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation?” asks SDSU psychologist Jean M. Twenge in a recent Atlantic magazine article. She concludes that, in many ways,
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a people to improvise new words to catch and crystallize the new realities
DEAR RICHARD LEDERER: I wonder if you might write something about the two verbs bring and take? There is a dreadful trend at the
This past May 26, my celestial odometer flipped over, and I turned 80 years of youth. My column that day described my joy about
Why do so many weddings take place in June? Go back centuries, and you will find that the Romans traditionally married in June to honor
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the greatest monument ever erected to the English language. In 1857, the idea of a comprehensive “dictionary
I’m button–burstingly proud to announce that today I am celebrating my (gasp!) 80th birthday. Some of us try to turn back our life’s odometer.
DEAR RICHARD LEDERER: The other day, I was working a crossword and encountered a clue that read, “Pioneering hypnotist.” As you would know, his