Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
Responding to the challenge of my recent limericks contest, you, my verbivorous readers, winged me 193 sprightly examples of that light verse form. In gratitude,
Simone and I were transfixed throughout last week by the Public Television series “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History” In seven two-hour episodes, archival documentary filmmaker
Believe it or not, each year Sept. 24 is National Punctuation Day. Now you might think that celebrating those little and lowly dots, lines and
Two hundred years ago, the words to what has become our national anthem were first set to paper. On Sept. 14, 1814, a 35-year-old Washington
Earlier this week, Random House Children’s Books released a shiny new Dr. Seuss book titled “Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories.” The collection
Now could there be anything betterer, For an avid word-junkie competitor? No crossword or Jumble Is worth half the tumble As a limerick contest from
Each week in this space, I strive to go the whole nine yards to entertain and enlighten you about our glorious, uproarious, courageous, contagious, stupendous,
In two days, we will mark the 75th anniversary of what may be the most iconic film of all American films. Aug. 25, 1939, was
Let us celebrate the limerick, a highly disciplined exercise in verse that is the only popular fixed poetic form indigenous to the English language. While