Halloween Word Prey You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
October 26, 2013
Three vampires went into a bar and sat down. A comely barmaid came over to take their orders. The vampires tried to be neck
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
Three vampires went into a bar and sat down. A comely barmaid came over to take their orders. The vampires tried to be neck
About a month ago, I wrote a column about George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and the recent controversy surrounding the NSA surveillance of millions
Next week, we mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of the man who, along with Richard Wagner, is considered the pre-eminent composer of
The great French novelist Victor Hugo once wrote, “A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their
Sept. 24 is National Punctuation Day, a time to think about all those lowly, little dots, lines, and squiggles that adorn the written word. One
These days we San Diegans frequently read and hear the verb harass and the noun harassment. Whether to place the stress on the first syllable
A stroodle is “the annoying piece of cheese stretching from a slice of hot pizza to one’s mouth.” A mustgo is “any item of
Labor Day was first celebrated in New York City in 1882, when the Central Labor Union held a parade to display the spirit of
(Sadly, for my Internet readers, the contest in the article is open only to San Diego County residents) *** Zizzebots are “the marks on