Vocabula Bound 2 edited by Robert Hartwell Fiske

This is a Vocabula Book. Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue, twenty-eight of the best essays and ten of the best poems published in The Vocabula Review.

... no beauty to be had, but in wresting and writhing our own tongue? — Ben Jonson

Here is the table of contents:

Introduction by Rosemarie Ostler

Introduction by Charles Hodgson

THE ESSAYS

Verónica Albin: Names, Nemeses, Nameses

Edwin Battistella: The Folk Art of Error

Tina Bennett-Kastor: A Battle of Words

Ada Brunstein: Word Economics

Julian Burnside: Mentor

Bill Casselman: A Blunt History of the Word Cunt

Skip Eisiminger: The Consequences of a Word

Joseph Epstein: Cleaning Up My Act

Robert Hartwell Fiske: The Decline of the Dictionary

Adam Freedman: All About Eaves

Amalia Gnanadesikan: Change and Decay: Confessions of a Descriptive Linguist

Donna Gorrell: Conversations with a Copy Editor

Ellen Graf: Linguistic Strategies to Cure Illness

Mark Halpern: The End of Linguistics

Carey Harrison: Millions Dead

Kerr Houston: Breve New World: Thoughts on an Emergent Pidgin

David Isaacson: Code Switching

John Kilgore: Frisking the Governor's Daughter

Richard Lederer: Confessions of a Verbivore

Anna Jean Mallinson: An The A

John McIntyre: Arabber

Kevin Mims: The Adjustor, the Vestige, and the King of Cashews

Clark Elder Morrow: Oscar Wilde Meets the Cartoon Network

Christopher Orlet: Fatal Language Errors

Mark Painter: Life and Death Punctuation

Mark Peters: Can a Warlord Be a Dingbat?

Christopher Ringwald: Bad Writing Kills

Joan Taber: GÏÕÑ þµ ‡€ †¥ ÅE ðÿšŽë [Honk If You're Etruscan]

THE POEMS

Matthew Byrne: You Will Be Mine

Laura Cherry: The Restaurant

Barbara Goldowsky: How to Become a Future Unremembered Poet

Miriam N. Kotzin: Elevated Risk

Pen Pearson: Tradition and the Individual

Jude Roland: Idyll

Peter Swanson: David Niven: A Villanelle

Brian Taylor: Lot's Wife

John Timpane: Overpass

George Witte: At Dusk, the Catbird

Credits

Biographical Notes

Cover illustration: Fabricate (2008) by Mel Kadel

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