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Richard Lederer

    Richard Lederer esplora le complessità e le gioie della comunicazione umana attraverso i suoi ampi scritti su lingua, storia e umorismo. Il suo lavoro offre ai lettori una prospettiva arricchente sul potere delle parole, spesso intrisa di acuta osservazione e arguzia. Attraverso le sue prolifere pubblicazioni e i frequenti commenti radiofonici, condivide una profonda passione per la linguistica e un'abilità unica nel trovare divertimento nel linguaggio quotidiano.

    Alphabet Avenue
    Nothing Risque, Nothing Gained
    Crazy English
    Comma Sense
    Anguished English
    • 2005

      Comma Sense

      • 160pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      Fans of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" will delight in this collection from one ofAmerica's favorite grammarians. 15 illustrations.

      Comma Sense
    • 1997

      Alphabet Avenue

      Wordplay in the Fast Lane

      • 365pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      Book by Morice, Dave

      Alphabet Avenue
    • 1996

      Anguished English

      An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language

      • 192pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our common language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed-Up Metaphors . . . from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers . . . it's a collection that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter.

      Anguished English
    • 1995

      Nothing Risque, Nothing Gained

      Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun

      • 292pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      This celebration of verbal ingenuity on impolite subjects includes puns of every sort, spoonerisms, Tom Swifties, and a grand Dirty Dictionary.

      Nothing Risque, Nothing Gained
    • 1990

      Crazy English

      The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language

      • 188pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      In what other language, asks Lederer, do people drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, and your nose can run and your feet can smell? In CRAZY ENGLISH, Lederer frolics through the logic-boggling byways of our language, discovering the names for phobias you didn't know you could have, the longest words in our dictionaries, and the shortest sentence containing every letter in the alphabet. You'll take a bird's-eye view of our beastly language, feast on a banquet of mushrooming food metaphors, and meet the self-reflecting Doctor Rotcod, destined to speak only in palindromes.

      Crazy English