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By: Richard Lederer

ISBN: 9780671000363
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1997
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Presents a collection of humorous language errors from newspaper headlines, politician's remarks, court transcripts, insurance forms, signs, and classified ads.


(Paperback)

By: Richard Lederer

ISBN: 9780671689094
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1992
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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(Paperback)

By: Richard Lederer

ISBN: 9780671526702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1995
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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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.


(Paperback)

By: Richard Lederer

ISBN: 9780440203520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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Lampooning the myriad mistakes that crop up in the everyday use of the English langauge, this collection presents faux pas from students' essays, newspaper headlines, accident reports, and everyday grammar mistakes.


(Paperback)

By: Richard Lederer

ISBN: 9780440215776
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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The side-splitting sequel to Anguished English, a runaway bestseller with more than a quarter million copies in print. Richard Lederer is back--and better than ever--with his second hilarious volume of accidental assaults on the English language.


(Paperback)

By: Richard Lederer

ISBN: 9781556522642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1996
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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An introduction to wordplay, including puns, spoonerisms, riddles, and more.


(Paperback)

By: Richard Lederer

ISBN: 9781556523809
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
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Aimed at children of all ages, this work includes anagrams, palindromes, acrostics, alliteration, riddles, and puns. This activity book shows kids how to juggle letters to become ringmasters of wordplay. It enables kids, who are natural language enthusiasts, to cavort through that endless entertainment, the English language.


(Paperback)

By: Richard Lederer

ISBN: 9781423637264
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc
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(Paperback)

By: Richard Lederer

ISBN: 9781423622772
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc
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Facts, riddles, and quizzes expose little-known facts about the United States' origins, presidents, famous figures, geography, and pastimes.


(Paperback)

By: Richard Lederer

ISBN: 9781423643173
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc
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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.