Paging All Library Lovers: Celebrate This Grand Day
September 28, 2013
The great French novelist Victor Hugo once wrote, “A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
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
In the wake of recent revelations that the NSA collects data on millions of Americans, sales of the centennial edition of George Orwell’s novel “Nineteen
I truly believe that we who are riding the planet today have more of a fascination with and skill in word games and letter puzzles
San Diego was recently named the top philanthropic city in the U.S. by “Charity Navigator,” which analyzes and ranks the nation’s nonprofits. The word philanthropy