Richard Lederer, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-31785-0
William Safire has sparked many word debates, but also burning brightly is 65-year-old word detective and language lecturer Lederer (Anguished English
, etc.). Self-labeled Attila the Pun and Conan the Grammarian, he reaches a million readers with...
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Richard Lederer, Author St. Martin's Griffin $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-31813-0
Noted linguist Lederer (Anguished English) has a naughty side, which, combined with his unerring archival instincts, makes this collection of wordplays a bawdily noteworthy achievement. As long as one doesn't overdose on more than two chapters at a...
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Richard Lederer, Author St. Martin's Griffin $14.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-312-35171-7
This collection of light-hearted essays pokes, prods and pinches the English language, taunting and protecting it like an older brother might for his weakling sibling. Lederer, a language columnist and author of Anguished English, often demonstrates
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Richard Lederer, Author Pocket Books $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68906-3
A journalist, teacher at St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and public-radio commentator, Lederer ( Anguished English ; Get Thee to a Punnery ) again adroitly mixes instruction with hilarity by showing that English, though the richest and most...
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Richard Lederer, Author Pocket Books $21 (277p) ISBN 978-0-671-70941-9
Prolific wordsmith Lederer's latest gathering of essays and columns--some new, some culled from Writer's Digest , Verbatim , etc.--is a word-lover's delight. It includes several personal pieces, like one about his encounter with Black English while...
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Richard Lederer, Author, Elaine Pfefferblit, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-68907-0
Lederer ``adroitly mixes instruction with hilarity by showing that English, though the richest and most widely used of all the world's languages, is `crazy.' The text is a dazzling collection of anagrams, alliterations, idioms, illogical spelling...
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Richard Lederer, Author, Elaine Pfefferblet, Editor Pocket Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70939-6
In this collection of entertaining and enlightening essays, Lederer ( Anguished English ) celebrates language as ``incomparably the finest of our achievements'' and passes along some eloquent testimony on the emancipating power of language in the...
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Richard Lederer, Author, Jim McLean, Illustrator St. Martin's Press $22.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-312-33493-2
Fourth in the Anguished English series (The Bride of Anguished English, More Anguished English, etc.), Lederer's newest collection of grammatical goofs will illicit laughs from start to finish. Cataloguing the hilarious ways in which people mangle...
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Richard Lederer, Author, Jane Rosenman, Editor Pocket Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70940-2
In this collection of entertaining and enlightening essays--BOMC and QPB alternates selection in cloth--Lederer celebrates language as ``incomparably the finest of our achievements.'' (Oct.)
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Richard Lederer, Author, John Shore, Author, James McLean, Illustrator St. Martin's Press $22.95 (140p) ISBN 978-0-312-34254-8
Lederer has long been one of America's most popular experts on language and grammar, but here he seems to be taking his cue from Lynn Truss in focusing on the ins and outs of commas, semi-colons and the other little dots and dashes that punctuate...
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