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Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay: Practical Advice for the Grammatically Challenged*and That's No Lie

AvRichard Lederer,Richard Dowis

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

261 kr

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The Bride of Anguished English: A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos

AvRichard Lederer

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

261 kr

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The Cunning Linguist: Ribald Riddles, Lascivious Limericks, Carnal Corn, and Other Good, Clean Dirty Fun

AvRichard Lederer

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

322 kr

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Comma Sense: A Fundamental Guide to Punctuation

AvRichard Lederer,John Shore

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

235 kr

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Word Wizard: Super Bloopers, Rich Reflections, and Other Acts of Word Magic

AvRichard Lederer

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

278 kr

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Anguished English

An Anthology of Accidental Assaults on the English Language [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition]

AvRichard Lederer

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

280 kr

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Richard Lederer's Classic Literary Trivia

From Mythology, Shakespeare, and the Bible [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition]

AvRichard Lederer

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

272 kr

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Fractured English

AvRichard Lederer

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

166 kr

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From Simon & Schuster, Fractured English is Richard Lederer is a laugh-out-loud, sidesplitting, collection of language fluffs and flubs by America's super-duper blooper snooper.A collection of language gems by the author of Anguished English includes side-tickling language bloopers under such headings as Mouths of Babes, Classified Classics, Poli-Tickle Speeches, and Science Friction.

Crazy English

The Ultimate Joy Ride through Our Language

AvRichard Lederer

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

278 kr

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Miracle of Language

AvRichard Lederer

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

181 kr

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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.

Write Way

The Spell Guide to Good Grammar and Usage

AvRichard Lederer,Donna Ng

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

189 kr

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From Simon & Schuster, The Write Way is the S.P.E.L.L. (Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature) guide to real-life writing.Anyone who's tackled tricky grammar, slippery syntax, pesky punctuation, or sneaky jargon knows that good writing is never easy. In this ingenious guide, enjoy the wit of two English language mavens as they entertain while answering all our perplexing questions.

Play of Words

AvRichard Lederer,Elaine Pfefferblit

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

179 kr

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Learn the origins of popular phrases in the English language through this exciting book of games perfect for language lovers.Do you know the connection between the expression A HARROWING EXPERIENCE and agriculture, between BY AND LARGE and sailing, between GET YOUR GOAT and horses, or between STEAL YOUR THUNDER and show business? You probably have heard the comparisons HAPPY AS A CLAM, SMART AS A WHIP, PLEASED AS PUNCH, DEAD AS A DOORNAIL—but have you ever wondered why a clam should be happy, a whip smart, punch pleased, and a doornail dead? Through the fifty games included in The Play of Words you'll discover the answers to these questions as well as hundreds of other semantic delights that repose in our marvelous English language.

Anguished English

An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon the English Language

AvRichard Lederer

E-bok

Engelska, 2006

30 kr

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The “impossible to put down” compendium of linguistic bloopers and blunders: a hilarious collection of malapropisms, mixed metaphors and more (San Francisco Chronicle).

In Anguished English, Richard Lederer collects some of the worst—and funniest—English language errors ever committed to print. From legendary student screwups to horrible headlines and cringe-worthy advertising copy, Lederer shares a treasure trove of laugh-out-loud flubs and gaffes worthy of a Pullet Surprise.

“Hilarious.”—Chicago Tribune

“Richard Lederer is the true king of language comedy. Anguished English is the funniest book I have ever read.”—Sidney Sheldon

Presidential Trivia

AvRichard Lederer

E-bok

Engelska, 2009

43 kr

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Presidential Trivia: The Feats, Fates, Families, Foibles, and Firsts of Our American Presidents Revised and Updated from the beloved Richard Lederer comes another kind of trivia book—Presidential Trivia. In it you’ll find all the detailsabout the lives of the United States presidents. It answers such questions as: Who was the first president to be assassinated? Who was the first president to be born an American citizen? Who was the first to be impeached? It also answers less important but certainly interesting questions such as: Who was our fattest president? Our tallest? Who played golf? Who played poker?

Get Thee to a Punnery

An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language

AvRichard Lederer

E-bok

Engelska, 2014

64 kr

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Get Thee to a Punnery proves that the pun is mightier than the sword . . . and here are sidesplitting puns of every color, stripe and persuasion to suit every whim. Even if you don''t know that your humerus is your funny bone, this is the book for you.

The Time of the Signs:

On a diaper service truck: Rock a dry baby. On a plumber''s service truck: A flush is better than a full house. Show me where Stalin is buried and I''ll show you a communist plot! -Edgar Bergen Quiche me-I''m French! Hangover-the wrath of grapes Work is the ruin of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde

American Trivia

What We Should All Know About U.S. History, Culture & Geography

AvCaroline McCullagh,Richard Lederer

E-bok

Engelska, 2012

29 kr

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Learn fascinating facts about the history, culture, leaders, and heroes of our great nation in this comprehensive volume of U.S. trivia.

This land is your land—so you should know a thing or two about it. American Trivia is chock full of fascinating facts, historical riddles, and puzzling quizzes about the people, places, and events that make this nation great. Divided into sections on national origins, presidents, historical figures, and more, this book offers a crash course in essential Americana.

In these pages, you will learn the origin of the national anthem, stories about national monuments such as the Liberty Bell and Statue of Liberty, fascinating information about the country’s heroes and inventors, and more. As co-authors Richard Lederer and Caroline McCullagh demonstrate, American trivia is anything but trivial.

American Trivia Quiz Book

AvCaroline McCullagh,Richard Lederer

E-bok

Engelska, 2015

144 kr

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Test your knowledge of our great nation with this comprehensive volume of United States trivia, complete with quizzes to challenge—and stump—your friends.

These days, many Americans are more familiar with The Simpsons than they are with American presidents. So historian Richard Lederer and author Caroline McCullagh have decided to put their fellow American to the test with the American Trivia Quiz Book.

This entertaining volume brims with fascinating facts about the people, places, and events that make our nation great, with a series of fun and informative quizzes on subjects ranging from Columbus to baseball. There are questions about presidents and first ladies, explorers and inventors, heroes and poets, and much more.

Richard Lederer's Literary Trivia

AvRichard Lederer

E-bok

Engelska, 2014

29 kr

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The author of Anguished English presents a compendium of fascinating facts and anecdotes about some of literature’s greatest authors and works.

Author and English teacher Richard Lederer is one of the world’s foremost lovers of language and literature. In this endlessly engaging volume, he collects some of the most curious trivia about world-renowned authors and poets as well as their many immortal creations. The perfect gift for bibliophiles, Richard Lederer’s Literary Trivia sheds surprising new light on the books and writers we love.

Presidential Trivia, 3rd Edition

AvRichard Lederer

E-bok

Engelska, 2017

89 kr

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A freshly updated look at everything you never knew you wanted to know about our country’s illustrious line of commanders in chief—updated to include fascinating facts on our brand new 45th president, Donald Trump. You’ll find more than 1,000 fun and engaging facts in this book about each and every one of America’s forty-four different presidents (forty-five if you count Grover Cleveland, with his two nonconsecutive terms, twice). This revised edition has been updated to include new facts about our most recently elected president. Want to know which president appeared on the nation’s very first TV broadcast? (Herbert Hoover, before he was president, in 1927.) How about George Washington’s presidential salary? (An exorbitant, at least in eighteenth-century dollars, $25,000.) Who first pardoned a presidential turkey? (Harry Truman, in a debilitating fit of guilt.) We don’t know about you, but we can’t get enough of this stuff!Richard Lederer is the author of more than thirty-five books about language, history, and humor, including his best-selling Anguished English series. He is founding cohost of A Way with Words on public radio, and his syndicated column “Looking at Language” appears in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. He has been named International Punster of the Year and Toastmasters International’s Golden Gavel winner.

Crazy English

AvRichard Lederer

E-bok

Engelska, 2010

182 kr

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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.

Play of Words

AvRichard Lederer

E-bok

Engelska, 2010

138 kr

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Do you know the connection between the expression A HARROWING EXPERIENCE and agriculture, between BY AND LARGE and sailing, between GET YOUR GOAT and horses, or between STEAL YOUR THUNDER and show business? You probably have heard the comparisons HAPPY AS A CLAM, SMART AS A WHIP, PLEASED AS PUNCH, DEAD AS A DOORNAIL - but have you ever wondered why a clam should be happy, a whip smart, punch pleased, and a doornail dead? By playing the fifty games in this book , you''ll discover the answers to these questions as well as hundreds of other semantic delights that repose in our marvelous English language.

Miracle of Language

AvRichard Lederer

E-bok

Engelska, 2010

124 kr

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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.

Treasury for Cat Lovers

Wit and Wisdom, Information and Inspiration About

AvRichard Lederer

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

123 kr

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Celebrating Your Feline Friend Cat lovers everywhere, we invite you to come and celebrate the special bond we share with one of our most beloved companions! Join bestselling author Richard Lederer for a heartwarming collection of fascinating facts, touching stories, witty word games, and more -- all complemented by hilarious drawings. Settle in with your favorite feline, as you read wit and wisdom like... Why Cats Are Better Than Dogs Famous Cats and Cat Lovers A Cat's Guide to Humans 10 Clues That Your Cat Has Hacked into Your E-mail Password

Treasury for Dog Lovers

Wit and Wisdom, Information and Inspiration About

AvRichard Lederer

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

123 kr

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Celebrating Your Best Friend Dogs have been man's best friend for thousands of years, securing our hearts with their unwavering loyalty and boundless love. Join bestselling author Richard Lederer for a fun-filled collection of rollicking humor, witty word games, touching stories, and more -- all complemented by hilarious drawings. Celebrate the company of your furry pal as you delight in such wit and wisdom as... All I Need to Know I Learned from My Dog Ten Commandments for Dog Owners A Dozen Distinguished Dogs The Difference Between Dogs and Cats