More Anguished English

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Dell
ISBN: 0440215773
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
All the joy of the best-selling Anguished English is back! 2,000 all-new side-splitting flubs, fluffs, and hilariously funny accidental assaults on our language.

Anguished English

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9780941711814
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 198

Book Description
A collection of humorous language bloopers including misspelled words, bungled translations, mangled modifiers, and much more.

The Revenge of Anguished English

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312334931
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
An anguished language expert provides the latest collection of unfortunate typos, tragically misplaced modifiers, and other hilarious language snafus.

Crazy English

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143913894X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
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.

Fractured English

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671000365
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Presents a collection of humorous language errors from newspaper headlines, politician's remarks, court transcripts, insurance forms, signs, and classified ads.

The Miracle of Language

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439139407
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262

Book Description
Master verbalist Richard Lederer, America's "Wizard of Idiom" (Denver Post), presents a love letter to the most glorious of human achievements... Welcome to Richard Lederer's beguiling celebration of language -- of our ability to utter, write, and receive words. No purists need stop here. Mr. Lederer is no linguistic sheriff organizing posses to hunt down and string up language offenders. Instead, join him "In Praise of English," and discover why the tongue described in Shakespeare's day as "of small reatch" has become the most widely spoken language in history: English never rejects a word because of race, creed, or national origin. Did you know that jukebox comes from Gullah and canoe from Haitian Creole? Many of our greatest writers have invented words and bequeathed new expressions to our eveyday conversations. Can you imagine making up almost ten percent of our written vocabulary? Scholars now know that William Shakespeare did just that! He also points out the pitfalls and pratfalls of English. If a man mans a station, what does a woman do? In the "The Department of Redundancy Department," "Is English Prejudiced?" and other essays, Richard Lederer urges us not to abandon that which makes us human: the capacity to distinguish, discriminate, compare, and evaluate.

Comma Sense

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312342555
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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

The Anguished and the Enchanted

Author: Matthew H. Bowker
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 1953035558
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 121

Book Description
"In The Anguished and the Enchanted, M.H. Bowker offers a lengthy critical essay and richly annotated English translation of a lost Finnish translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince. Featuring a substantial Translator's Preface, M.H. Bowker develops a psychoanalytic lens through which to regard Saint-Exupéry's classic work, offering a more nuanced and less ""fable-esque"" text than any translation and interpretation to date. On Bowker's reading, dark and primitive unconscious forces -- including neglect and abuse at home, the hatred of maturation and development, the projection of feelings of worthlessness onto others, the creation of an absurd and futile world, and more -- infest the story, not unlike the Baobab trees dreaded by the little prince. Those already familiar with The Little Prince will find in The Anguished and the Enchanted a new way of regarding what has perhaps become a favorite or even a beloved book. Those unfamiliar with the original work will discover a sometimes tragic, sometimes sympathetic, sometimes harrowing account of the lengths to which persons will go in their struggle to find -- or to escape from -- meaningful places for themselves in the world of adults."

Pun and Games

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1613746288
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
Introduces the wacky world of wordplay with puns, spoonerisms, games of word substitution, and more.

The Cunning Linguist

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429906421
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
Have some fun with your native tongue! In The Cunning Linguist, renowned language expert Richard Lederer shows us the naughtier side of wordplay, revealing hundreds of hilarious, ingenious, unabashed, and adults-only puns, jokes, limericks, one-liners, and other adventures in sexual humor. This book of "good, clean dirty fun" will delight word hounds, punsters, bachelor-party goers, and anyone who likes a clever grown-up joke. Here's a taste of The Cunning Linguist: Q: What does a man have in his pants that you can also find on a pool table? A: Pockets. Have you heard about the incompatible couple? He had no income, and she wasn't pattable. The four stages of a couple's sex life: Under 35: Tri-weekly 35-45: Try weekly 45-55: Try weakly 55 and over: Try, try, try. For much more, sneak between the covers of this unique and laugh-out-loud book.