Brand Names Leave Their Trade-Marks On Language
October 21, 2017
Dear Richard Lederer: In a recent U-T Business section, the word genericide — what an interesting word! — popped up in conjunction with the ongoing
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
Dear Richard Lederer: In a recent U-T Business section, the word genericide — what an interesting word! — popped up in conjunction with the ongoing
The Elizabethan age was the age of the sonnet, a compact fixed verse form written in iambic pentameter, a metrical foot that captures the
Dear Richard Lederer: Why doesn’t the U.S. government do something proactively for once? Millions of people struggle to learn English. Why doesn’t the government
Next Saturday, October 7, at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, the U-T will host its 10th annual Successful Aging Expo, its biggest ever. I’ll be
William Shakespeare is alive and well and living robustly in America’s finest city. The San Diego Shakespeare Society, on whose board I sit, will
Next weekend the MCAS Miramar Air Show will, rain or shine, fill the skies in my part of our city. The spectacle will feature
The First Annual (of many, I suspect) San Diego Festival of Books, held two weeks ago at Liberty Station in Point Loma, was a
Many of us attend conferences, parties and other gatherings where we are asked to wear name tags that say, “Hello, I’m _____.” Here’s a
Dear Richard Lederer: I was at a conference getting myself orientated about preventative maintenance — or should that be “oriented about preventive maintenance”? Could