Anguished English: An Anthology of Accidental Assaults upon Our Language

by Richard Lederer

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 044020352X
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Dell
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.4" x 4.2"

Customer Reviews

Fun

Its hard go imagine a Lit based book could be fun to read, but this guy does it! Read this aloud to myself and my family, and we all had plenty of laughs. Wouldnt recommend for people who dont have an interest in english language and all the follies it contains.

Anguished English

Anguished English is a wonderful book. We gave a copy to our grand-daughter who is an English major at WSU and she has enjoyed it immensly (sp) The entire family enjoyed it over Christmas.

A classic

Richard Lederer's collection of goof and gaffes in the English language is a must read for anybody who speaks or studies English. Hilarious.

Funny, funny, funny!

This is one of the funniest books! Make sure you're sitting down, or better yet, lying down whe you read this book. You would also be well-advised to take this book in small doses, if you don't want to die laughing.... :-) Grammar has never been so funny. Then again, I'm not sure if I ought to laugh or cry at how the English language is murdered :-) The drawings in the book are also hilarious.This book is a most enjoyable way to learn about how not to make mistakes in your writing. It has lots of great lines you can pull out to amuse people with, ( eg. Headline - Milk Drinkers Are Turning to Powder). It would also be great reading during the summer, in preparation for English classes. Absolutely loved it. I also hightly recommend his other books.

Any book that makes me laugh THIS hard ...

I picked this one up at Borders and started to read at ramdom. Within seconds I was laughing out loud right there in the book aisle. I had to buy it. When I read it at home, I had to do it in short hops because my stomach would hurt from laughing. It's a keeper. Definitely a great one for all who love our language - and having fun with it.

One of the few sure-fire laughs in print.

"The World According to Student Bloopers," a section of Lederer's book, has been widely pirated on the Internet and is thus familiar to many, even though they may not know its original source. There's a reason why this text has echoed around the world: One cannot read it without laughing. Other sections of the book, all of which deal with the many misuses, distortions and double-entendres encountered in everyday English usage, aren't quite so laugh-packed, but are still well worth the trip.