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April 22, 2017
Dear Richard Lederer: Would you please write a column about the use and misuse of the word fulsome? A recent story from the Washington Post,
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
Dear Richard Lederer: Would you please write a column about the use and misuse of the word fulsome? A recent story from the Washington Post,
Brush up your Shakespeare. Start quoting him now. Brush up your Shakespeare, And the women you will wow. – Cole Porter, “Kiss Me, Kate” Name
Just about everyone has seen the blue street signs with the big white H and an arrow pointing the way to the nearest hospital. Now
April is national poetry month, so I will tell you a story that starts out long ago, perhaps 140 million years in the past, and
This past Sunday, the U-T ran a report headlined LACK OF COMMA COSTS COMPANY MILLIONS IN DISPUTE. The outcome of the class-action lawsuit about overtime
This Thursday, the Union-Tribune will hold its annual countywide spelling bee. On the model of the collectively busy bee, we call these events spelling
Since January 1926, the award-winning magazine published by the San Diego Zoological Society has been titled ZOONOOZ. It’s a bedazzling, beguiling and bewitching name
Believe it or not, March 6 annually marks National Dentists Day. Dentists might not be the most popular people, but we all need them
The 89th presentation of the Academy Awards will unfold tomorrow evening. If you’re a fan of “La La Land” or “Hidden Figures” “Manchester by the