Here’s a Pop Quiz to Brush Up Your Shakespeare
April 13, 2013
Brush up your Shakespeare. Start quoting him now. Brush up your Shakespeare, And the women you will wow. — Cole Porter, “Kiss Me, Kate” Name
Read “Lederer on Language” every other Saturday in the San Diego Union Tribune and on this site
Brush up your Shakespeare. Start quoting him now. Brush up your Shakespeare, And the women you will wow. — Cole Porter, “Kiss Me, Kate” Name
April is national poetry month, so I will tell you a story that starts out long ago, perhaps 140 million years in the past, and
April Fools’ Day, sometimes called All Fools’ Day, is a time to play pranks on others. These tricks can be verbal, as in the examples
Dear Mr. Lederer: A day does not go by that I do not hear someone use myself in place of me or I. For example,
Cavorting through a merry jig for St. Patrick’s Day, I shall throw some bull – not just any kind of bull, but an Irish bull.
This evening, Hal Holbrook will present his legendary one-man show, “Mark Twain Tonight!” at the Balboa Theater. Twain held strong opinions about a passel of
Next Saturday, March 9, Hal Holbrook will present his legendary one-man show, “Mark Twain Tonight!” at the Balboa Theatre. For almost 60 years Holbrook has
Americans have fallen deeply in love with that beguiling conspiracy of light and darkness and color and silence and sound and music that we call
Next Saturday, Feb. 23, at 11:15 a.m. I’ll be speaking at the U-T’s Successful Aging Exposition at the Town and Country. A writer’s reality is