Anguished English
Title | Anguished English PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lederer |
Publisher | Gibbs Smith |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9780941711814 |
A collection of humorous language bloopers including misspelled words, bungled translations, mangled modifiers, and much more.
More Anguished English
Title | More Anguished English PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lederer |
Publisher | Dell |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 1994-09-04 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 0440215773 |
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.
Crazy English
Title | Crazy English PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lederer |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2010-05-11 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 143913894X |
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.
The Bride of Anguished English
Title | The Bride of Anguished English PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lederer |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2007-04-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1429906391 |
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.
Fractured English
Title | Fractured English PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lederer |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1996-11 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 0671000365 |
Presents a collection of humorous language errors from newspaper headlines, politician's remarks, court transcripts, insurance forms, signs, and classified ads.
Anguished English
Title | Anguished English PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lederer |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2014-03 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9781459677654 |
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.Help wanteds: Wanted: Unmarried girls to pick fresh fruit and produce at night.Two - Headed Headlines: Grandmother of eight makes hole in one! Doctor testifies in horse suit.Modern - Day Malapropisms: I suffer from a deviant septum.
Anguished English
Title | Anguished English PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Lederer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9780941711036 |
Anguished English is the impossibly funny anthology of accidental assaults upon our language. From bloopers and blunders to Signs of the Times to Mixed Up Metaphors...from Two-Headed Headlines to Mangling Modifiers, here is an outrageous treasury of assaults upon our common language that will leave you roaring with delight and laughter.