Tossing Around Baseball Terms With Dick Enberg
October 17, 2015
Two Thursdays ago, at our Padres’ last home game of the 2014-2015 season (the good guys beat the Brewers 3-1), I had the honor of
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
Two Thursdays ago, at our Padres’ last home game of the 2014-2015 season (the good guys beat the Brewers 3-1), I had the honor of
Cristoffa Corombo was born in the Republic of Genoa (now in Italy) in 1451. He began his career as a seaman in the Portuguese merchant
William Shakespeare is alive and well and living in America’s Finest City. The San Diego Shakespeare Society, on whose board I serve, will soon be
Over the centuries, some lucky people have been granted a measure of immortality by having had their names transformed into common English words. One way
When you speak and write, there is no law that says you have to use big words. Short words are as good as long ones,
A few weeks ago, I presented a parade of real-life, verbally clever signs and placards that have adorned places of business around the world. I
Labor Day is a yearly national tribute to the contributions of American workers to our strength and prosperity. But long before that, the importance of
Have you noticed that a number of simple nouns have recently acquired new adjectives? What we used to call, simply, “books,” for example, we now
For the enjoyment and edification of you, my logoleptic pun pals, I present my collection of placards and posters that have appeared around the world.