The Bride of Anguished English

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429906391
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
For years wordsmith and punster Richard Lederer has charmed and delighted fans with his bestselling "Anguished English" series. In his funniest book yet, readers will again cherish the author's latest chronicle of the goofs and gaffes and fluffs and flubs of our anguished language. And the best part? Everything in here actually occurred! Nothing has been made up! Bloopers from foreign restaurants include: * "Our wines leave you nothing to hope for." * "As for the tripe served here, you will be singing its praises to your grandchildren on your deathbed." Excerpts from students' twisted history papers include: * "World War I made the people so sad that it brought on the Great Depression." * "America was founded by four fathers. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Decoration of Independence, which says that all men are cremated equal and are well endowed by their creator." Hilarious illustrations by Jim McLean make The Bride of Anguished English the perfect book for anyone who loves English with all its blunders and bloopers and quips and quirks.

The Revenge of Anguished English

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312334949
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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

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.

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.

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.

Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay

Author: Richard Lederer
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429906383
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
For years Richard Lederer has enthralled fans of the English language with his keen insights, commonsense advice, and witty presentation. Now Lederer has teamed up with Richard Dowis to take readers on another journey through the world's most wonderful, albeit perplexing, language. How many times have we all heard the word viable used in company meetings? Lederer and Dowis show us how "viable," somewhere along the line, was extracted from medical books, where it literally means "capable of living," and placed into the business lexicon, where it means...well, who knows? The authors clear up once and for all the confusion between lay and lie and put to rest some common myths about language. The book's finale is a ten-minute writing lesson from which everyone, from rank amateur to seasoned pro, can benefit. These and dozens of other features make this book pure pleasure for language buffs, writers, and teachers. Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay is useful and authoritative as well as fun to read, with humorous touches often popping up where least expected and most needed.

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.

You Shall Know Our Velocity

Author: Dave Eggers
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307426084
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
An “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. • From the bestselling author of The Circle. “Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” —The New York Times Book Review "You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer.... Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." —LA Weekly