Episode description
Episode description
What's In A Name?Richard Lederer is back at it with a lesson exploring the deep personal and cultural significance of names! Identify, societal, etymology, and the importance in literary works - it's all in this lesson on names.
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About This PODucation Course
In this very special PODucation Course, Lederer On Language, students and lifelong learners will be treated to the magical dancing with words which can only be performed by the one and only Richard Lederer. A living legend, Richard Lederer, is an American linguist, author, speaker, and teacher. He is best known for his books on the English language and on wordplay such as puns, oxymorons, and anagrams. He has been dubbed "the Wizard of Idiom," "Attila the Pun," and "Conan the Grammarian." His weekly column, "Lederer on Language," appears in the San Diego Union-Tribune and his articles are in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States including the Mensa Bulletin. He was elected International Punster of the Year in 1989 and was the 2002 recipient of the Golden Gavel of Toastmasters International.
He has written more than 60 books, including Anguished English books starting in 1987, Get Thee to a Punnery (1988), Crazy English (1989), The Miracle of Language (1992), Amazing Words (2011), and The Joy of Names (2018). His books about various subjects other than language include Presidential Trivia (2007), A Treasury for Cat Lovers (2009) and A Treasury for Dog Lovers (2009), The Gift of Age (2011), A Tribute to Teachers (2011), and American Trivia with Caroline McCullagh (2012). In 1998 he and Charles Harrington Elster became the first co-hosts of the weekly radio show, A Way with Words, produced by KPBS, San Diego Public Radio, and broadcast by multiple stations throughout the United States.
This special 10-episode audiocourse represents a unique and engaging opportunity to learn to love words with one of the greatest ever.
Special thanks to Jose Cruz, a passionate man of words and the CEO of the San Diego Council on Literacy, for his tremendous efforts in bringing this course to fruition.
This PODucation course was recorded, mixed, mastered and engineered by Ryan Norr and his team at San Diego Audio Visual. Christelle Auzas provided post-production editing and engineering to the episodes.
This "Lederer On Languauge" audio-course is brought to you by PODucation, the national leader and pioneer in curating and creating podcasts with accompanying Student Listening Guides. To obtain the Listening Guides which accompany each episode, please contact charles@cloudcastmedia.us.
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