Like air pollution, grammar violations affect our health
November 25, 2023
For a goodly number of my readers, defective spelling, punctuation, and pronunciation screech like chalk on a blackboard. It is not my gray hair
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
For a goodly number of my readers, defective spelling, punctuation, and pronunciation screech like chalk on a blackboard. It is not my gray hair
Thanksgiving Day is mainly a celebration of the harvest, giving thanks for bountiful crops. Traditionally, a particular meal in 1621 is thought to be
Here’s little poem I’ve conjured up about Halloween monsters: Don’t ever play ping pong with King Kong. Don’t ever take blood tests with Dracula. Don’t
I am a member of the Grammar Police force, and our motto is “To Serve and Correct!” How strong is your grasp of English
DEAR RICHARD: Contemplating the spread of laboratory-grown, humane meat, I began to imagine a menu for such delectables: Faux-let Mignon, Fakin’, Top Sir-lyin’, Paté
Having opened on July 21, “Barbie” has become the highest grossing film of this year and the first billion-dollar film directed by a woman
William Shakespeare began his comedy Twelfth Night with the line “If music be the food of love, play on!” About a century later, the
I’m button-burstingly proud to announce that you’re reading my 500th column in the Union Tribune. Inspired by this milestone (never a millstone), I celebrate our
The Union-Tribune’s 7th Festival of Books will return to USD’s gorgeous campus on Saturday, August 19, 10 am-5 pm. The Festival is our city’s
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.