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  • Anguished English

    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. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pun and Games

    Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids

    Illustrated by Dave Morice ...
    Introduces the wacky world of wordplay with puns, spoonerisms, games of word substitution, and more. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cunning Linguist

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

    "Noted linguist Lederer ( Anguished English) has a naughty side, which . . . makes this collection of wordplays a bawdily noteworthy achievement." — Publishers WeeklyHave 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, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Word Wizard

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

    After a multi-decade career of stimulating readers to appreciate and laugh at the glories and oddities of our English language, beloved language maven Richard Lederer has collected his very best and most popular pieces in Word Wizard. In this career-capping anthology the reader will find essays that enlighten, inspire, and tickle the funny bone.From his hilarious bloopers to his hymns of praise to ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bride of Anguished English

    A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos

    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 ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Crazy English

    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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Comma Sense

    A Fun-damental Guide to Punctuation

    "A clear, entertaining, and just plain helpful guide to the American rules of punctuation." —Lynne Truss, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Eats, Shoots & LeavesAre you confounded by commas, addled by apostrophes, or queasy about quotation marks? Do you believe a bracket is just a support for a wall shelf, a dash is something you make for the bathroom, and a colon and semicolon are large and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay

    Practical Advice for the Grammatically Challenged

    A "delightful, witty, and hugely absorbing celebration of the English language" filled with usage tips, grammar games, and more (Bill Bryson, New York Times–bestselling author of The Mother Tongue).Famed wordaholic Richard Lederer has teamed up with Richard Dowis to take readers on another journey through the world's most wonderful, albeit perplexing, language. Aside from clearing up once and for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Miracle of Language

    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, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Play of Words

    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 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Puns Spooken Here

    Word Play for Halloween

    Q. What's a skeleton's favorite food?A. Spare ribs.Q. What was the witch's favorite subject in school?A. Spelling.Q. What kind of horse does a ghost ride?A. A night mare.Q. How does an exorcist keep in shape?A. He rides an exorcycle. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Anguished English

    An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon the English Language

    Narrated by Richard Lederer ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 11 min

    The “impossible to put down” compendium of linguistic bloopers and blunders; a hilarious collection of malapropisms, mixed metaphors and more (San Francisco Chronicle).Anguished Englishis the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our common language. Author, Richard Lederer, collects some of the worst—and funniest—English language errors ever committed to print. From legendary ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus