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Jan 1, 1885 — —· 141 yrs

LANGUAGE · HUMOR

Richard Lederer

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Pediatrician

"I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady," says the irrepressible Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion.

— from Sleeping dogs don't lay, 1999

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The miracle of language

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Sleeping dogs don't lay

1999

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"Lederer has teamed up with Richard Dowis to take readers on another journey through the world's most wonderful, albeit perplexing, language. How many times have we all heard the word viable used in company meetings? Lederer and Dowis show us how "viable," somewhere along the line, was extracted from medical books, where it literally means "capable of living," and placed into the business lexicon, where it means ... well, who knows?"--BOOK JACKET. "The authors clear up once and for all the confusion between lay and lie and put to rest some common myths about language."--BOOK JACKET.

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Word Wizard

1998

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Using her magical spoon to make new words by changing letters around, Anna embarks on a series of adventures with a lost little boy.

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