Number Text Start Date End Date Vote Results
27 The misspelling and mispronunciation of odoriferous stinks. 5/17/2008 6/28/2008 Click View
26 I love the word def. Slang is sexy, and so am I. 4/19/2008 5/17/2008 Click View
25 "The newspaper that published his columns checked his entire oeuvre, and it turns out that Goeglein's thefts were frequent and fulsome." 3/16/2008 4/20/2008 Closed View
24 "It was the predominate opinion of those I respected." 2/17/2008 3/31/2008 Closed View
23 Emerson is right: Ginormous is not a word. 1/20/2008 2/28/2008 Closed View
22 W00t should be included in the next, the twelfth, edition of Merriam-Webster's. 12/12/2007 1/19/2008 Closed View
21 Using alright instead of all right is: 11/18/2007 12/12/2007 Closed View
20 Would you pay as much as $50 a year to read The Vocabula Review if it meant the journal would then survive and be able to pay its authors, thus likely attracting more writers to TVR? 8/12/2006 11/1/2006 Closed View
19 Vocabula vs. Verbatim 2/8/2005 4/30/2005 Closed View
18 People who have a prescriptive attitude toward language must be politically and socially conservative. 8/31/2004 11/1/2004 Closed View
16 For president of the United States, whom would you vote for? 4/5/2004 9/1/2004 Closed View
15 The college dictionary that I do (or would) prefer using is: 1/13/2004 3/12/2004 Closed View
14 2005 New Year's Resolutions 12/15/2004 3/1/2005 Closed View
12 A person who does not speak well is a person who does not think well. 11/2/2003 12/31/2003 Closed View
11 The Vocabula Review costs $8.95 for twelve monthly issues. 10/30/2003 11/1/2003 Closed View
10 The new slang-filled 11th edition of the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary does as much as, if not more than, Webster's Third to discourage people from taking lexicographers seriously. 7/23/2003 10/31/2003 Closed View
9 More than incorrect grammar and an infelicitous style, the deliberate misuse of words -- euphemism, circumlocution, lying -- is an assault on language and society. 5/26/2003 7/22/2003 Closed View
7 Dictionaries should be much more prescriptive, far less descriptive, than they now are. 6/1/2005 9/1/2005 Closed View
6 If how a person speaks reflects how well a person thinks, U.S. President George W. Bush thinks very badly indeed. 2/12/2003 3/18/2003 Closed View
5 New Year's Resolutions 12/20/2002 2/28/2003 Closed View
4 As students are required to pass a proficiency test before being allowed to graduate from high school, so politicians should be required to pass a proficiency test before being allowed to run for office. 11/10/2002 12/29/2002 Closed View
3 A society is generally as lax as its language. 8/15/2006 12/1/2006 Closed View
2 Let's stop adulating sports figures, rock stars, and other celebrities. A person who can declaim, who can speak beautifully, is truly someone to prize. 8/10/2002 9/23/2002 Closed View
1 Are you comfortable with "disinterested" being used as a synonym for "uninterested"? 7/19/2002 8/9/2002 Closed View

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