U-T Readers Never Say Die — They Just Pun Away
May 17, 2014
Old punsters never die — they just go to their reword. My recent column on “Old soldiers never die — they just fade away”
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
Old punsters never die — they just go to their reword. My recent column on “Old soldiers never die — they just fade away”
Mothers are so proud of their children, even when they’re the mothers of little monsters. One monster mother said to another one, “You have
As you may have guessed by now, I am an unrepentant English major. In 1955, I entered Haverford College, just outside of Philadelphia, as a
I’m pleased to report that I’ll be emceeing one of the five open-air stages at the San Diego Student Shakespeare Festival, to be held next
In four days will arrive the 450th anniversary of the birth of the greatest playwright, poet and wordmaker who ever trod the earthly stage.
About a month ago, my U-T colleague in columny, Logan Jenkins, spotlighted a PETA ad displayed in the San Diego International Airport. “Welcome to
Fifty years ago today, Gen. Douglas MacArthur exited the earthly stage. When he retired from the military in 1951, he declaimed the famous line
Yo, readers: Between you and I, if you ain’t gonna speak English good, I’m gonna write less columns. Irregardless of me not doing nothing, I’ll
A hundred and seventy-five years ago Sunday, the most useful expression of universal communication ever devised first appeared in print. That word is OK,