Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
San Diego Raises the Bard for Shakespeare’s Sonnets
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
The Plane Truth About Our High-Flying Language
Next weekend the MCAS Miramar Air Show will, rain or shine, fill the skies in my part of our city. The spectacle will feature
U-T Book Fest Illuminated Our City’s Bibliophilia
The First Annual (of many, I suspect) San Diego Festival of Books, held two weeks ago at Liberty Station in Point Loma, was a
A Labor Day Celebration of Punderful Name Badges
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
Getting Oriented to Preventive Ways to be Correct
Dear Richard Lederer: I was at a conference getting myself orientated about preventative maintenance — or should that be “oriented about preventive maintenance”? Could
A Constellation of Words Go Dancing With the Stars
In just two days, and for the first time in 99 years, the shadow of a total solar eclipse will arc across the United
Lots of Literacy and Learning at the Festival of Books
Two weeks from today the U-T and KPBS, both of whom I’ve worked for and with, will launch their first annual Festival of Books (sdfestivalofbooks.com).
Fabulous Fables Live On In Our Everyday Expressions
One afternoon a fox was wending his way through the forest when he spotted a bunch of grapes hanging from a lofty branch. “Just the
Any Way You Look at it, English is a Crazy Language
Dear Richard Lederer: Your column on Janus-faced words, words that contain opposite meanings within themselves, got me thinking about the many inconsistencies of the English