A Feast of Words

• Summary

  • After a half century of sparking readers to appreciate the glories of the English language and laugh at its oddities, beloved language maven Richard Lederer serves up a veritable banquet of words. This book is a career-capping anthology of essays that inspire, enlighten, and tickle the funny bone.

  • From his hymns of praise to English to his rib-tickling bloopers and puns, these verbal performances are among the brightest gems of a storied career — certain to delight language lovers and Lederer fans everywhere.

  • Written by Richard Lederer

  • Illustrated by Brett Radlicki

• Publisher Information

  • Publisher: Waterside Productions

  • Publication date : November 27, 2023

  • Language: English

• Available Formats

  • Soft cover

  • eBook

Ana Gram, the Juggler

An anagram is a rearrangement of all the letters in a familiar word, phrase, or name to form another word, phrase, or name.

If-Then Illogic

If something is as easy as pie, is it also a piece of cake?

Perfect Matches

This chapter gave the reader an opportunity to match real-life people with their perfect book titles, such as Jacques Cousteau and The Old Man and the Sea.

Dig Down to the Roots

Words and people have a lot in common. Like people, words are born, grow up, get married, have children, and even die.

The Palendromedary

Rich interviews the fictitious Palindromedary - a two-way statement made flesh!

The Joy of Lex

Do you find the changing word meanings to be vulgar, villainous, notorious, egregious, smug, or silly? Believe it or not, every one of these adjectives possessed a complimentary or neutral meaning during the middle ages.