It’s time to brush up your Shakespeare
April 13, 2024
Little information about William Shakespeare’s personal life is available, but from municipal records we can deduce that he was born in the English village of
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
Little information about William Shakespeare’s personal life is available, but from municipal records we can deduce that he was born in the English village of
A Sesquicentennial Celebration of poet Robert Frost’s birth is coming to San Diego on Wednesday, March 20, through Sunday, March 24 at our San
In America, we celebrate just about everything, so it may come as no surprise to you that, in two days, March 4 (March Forth!),
Presidents’ Day (please note my placement of the apostrophe) began life as a celebration of George Washington’s Birthday, February 22, 1732, But Washington was
The word history descends from the Latin historia, meaning “narrative, take, story,” and the saga of our American presidents is festooned with fascinating stories.
What do you get when you dip your little finger into a bottle of writing fluid? An inky pinky. Looking for an entertaining way
DEAR RICHARD: Now retired from 50 years of college teaching and having no more student papers to grade and critique, I address your recent U-T
Child film star Shirley Temple wrote, “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a
Frosty the Snowman and his wife live in an icicle built for two in the Snow Belt on the snow banks of Lake Snowbegone.
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.