Get Thee to a Punnery

Lederer, Richard

ISBN 10: 0941711080 / ISBN 13: 9780941711081

Verlag: Wyrick & Company, Charleston, South Carolina, 1988

Beschreibung

Tenth printing. Signed by the author on the title page: "Richard Lederer." Illustrations by Bill Thompson. The book is unmarked; spine slant; some edgewear at spine ends and corners; sleeve protected.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004069

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Get Thee to a Punnery
• Verlag: Wyrick & Company, Charleston, South Carolina
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0941711080
• ISBN-13: 9780941711081
• Bindung: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Thompson, Bill
• Zustand: Very Good +
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

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Inhaltsangabe

Get Thee to a Punnery proves that the pun is mightier than the sword . . . and here are sidesplitting puns of every color, stripe and persuasion to suit every whim. Even if you don't know that your humerus is your funny bone, this is the book for you.

The Time of the Signs:

• On a diaper service truck: Rock a dry baby.
•  On a plumber's service truck: A flush is better than a full house.
•  Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a communist plot! -Edgar Bergen
• Quiche me-I'm French!
• Hangover-the wrath of grapes
• Work is the ruin of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde

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Richard Lederer has taught English at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, for twenty-seven years and holds a Ph.D. in linguistics. The most recent of his almost one thousand articles and books about language and literature is Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults Upon Our Language (Wyrick & Company).
Dr. Lederer's weekly column, "Looking at Language," appears in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States. He is vice president of Spell (Society for thje Preservation of English Language and Literature), a regular contributor to Writing! and Verbatim, and a language commentator on New Hampsjire public radio. Many of the puns in Get Thee to a Punnery were submitted by Dr. Lederer's readers and listeners.