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American History for Everyone will make the American adventure come alive for you.
Laugh yourself silly with the national best-selling Anguished English, a side-splitting collection of accidental assaults on the English language.
This book is a career-capping anthology of essays that inspire, enlighten, and tickle the funny bone.
Richard Lederer is Learning and Language Dressed Up to Have Fun, and Lederer’s Language & Laughter is his funniest book ever.
Illuminating stories about the histories and mysteries of everyday words and phrases.
American History for Everyone will make the American adventure come alive for you. You’ll think more about the diverse people who have gone before us and worked so hard to bequeath us a united, spirited, and enchanting country, blessed with the gifts of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Woven into that history, along with the iconic figures — Betsy Ross, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, et al. — are the hidden figures — women and Brown, Black, and indigenous people who have contributed mightily to the fascinating story of our great nation.
Anguished English: Accidental Assaults Upon the English Language
Laugh yourself silly with the national best-selling Anguished English, Richard Lederer’s side-splitting collection of accidental assaults upon the English language, from student bloopers to headline howlers to mixed-up metaphors.
Dane Chobanian’s sprightly illustrations add to the rollicking fun of Anguished English.
After a half century of sparking readers to appreciate the glories of the English language and laugh at its oddities, beloved language maven Richard Lederer serves up a veritable banquet of words. This book is a career-capping anthology of essays that inspire, enlighten, and tickle the funny bone.
From his hymns of praise to English to his rib-tickling bloopers and puns, these verbal performances are among the brightest gems of a storied career — certain to delight language lovers and Lederer fans everywhere.
Brett Radlicki’s gallery of illustrations adds to the luminous joy and rollicking fun of A Feast of Words. This is the perfect book for family, friends, and yourself — everyone smitten by the magic of language.
Known as “Attila the Pun” and “The First Name in Popular Linguistics,” Richard Lederer is Learning and Language Dressed Up to Have Fun, and Lederer’s Language & Laughter is his funniest book ever. In its pages, he takes you on a joyride through our glorious, uproarious, notorious, victorious English language.
Chock full of jokes, wordplay, bloopers, puns, crazy English, funny names, grammar stammers, and hilarious holiday humor, this book will brighten your days and make you laugh again and again. A belly-shaking guffaw stimulates circulation, tones the muscles, energizes the lungs, excites endorphins, adds T cells to the immune system, reduces pain, inflammation, and muscle tension, and provides superb aerobic exercise. They who laugh, last.
-Hardcover Edition-
To the man or woman who knows its origin, each word presents a picture, no matter how ordinary it may appear. Best-selling language author Richard Lederer passionately and humorously presents illuminating stories about the histories and mysteries of everyday words and phrases. In this hardcover book, Dr. Lederer illuminates the history and mystery of everyday words and expressions, organizing these etymologies into 13 thematic clusters, including body parts; wild kingdom; entertainment; land, sea, air, and beyond; politics; sports; science; and religion.
Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. If you are heels over head (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and your nose can run and your feet can smell.
