January 2012, Vol. 14, No. 1 •  A Prescriptivist Manifesto by Mark Halpern •  Hiemal, Brumal, Algid, and Other Wintry Wordlets by Bill Casselman •  Naked as a Buck by John Kilgore •  Remembering the Great Charles Dickens by Richard Lederer •  Getting Blasted in the Classics by Clark Elder Morrow •  Vocabula Revisited: For the Benefit & Helpe of Ladies and Gentlewomen: A Historical Review of Dictionaries and Their Eccentricities by Verónica Albin •  Language Module 48: The Science of Language •  Elegant English •  Clues to Concise Writing •  Scarcely Used Words •  Gotcha Grammar February 2012, Vol. 14, No. 2 •  Allusion by Jean Mallinson •  When Bloggers Attack by Clark Elder Morrow •  Canopy: From an Egyptian Word Meaning Mosquito by Bill Casselman •  Culture and Society: I, the Juror by Kevin Mims •  On Paradox by Richard Lederer •  In Praise of the Iamb by Carey Harrison •  Maltese and the English Language by Tanja Cilia •  Vocabula Revisited: Apostrophe Epiphany by Mikita Brottman •  Elegant English •  Clues to Concise Writing •  Scarcely Used Words •  Gotcha Grammar March 2012, Vol. 14, No. 3 •  Our Handy English Language by Richard Lederer •  In Favor of Using Sexist and Racist Language by Bushra Iqbal •  Proteus and Protea by Bill Casselman •  Where Are Our Conservative Female Fiction Writers? by Kevin Mims •  Big Bad Wolfe: A Giant in Pygmy Land by Jeff Minick •  Three Albanias? The History of "Albania" in English by Sean A. Guynes •  Book Excerpt: One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir by Diane Ackerman •  Vocabula Revisited: DisenYOUGUYSing American English by Joan Taber •  Elegant English •  Clues to Concise Writing •  Scarcely Used Words •  Gotcha Grammar April 2012, Vol. 14, No. 4 •  On Hating College by John Kilgore •  Culture and Society: Thinking About Chivalry by Clark Elder Morrow •  Harder, Softer by David Galef •  Midterm Meditations by Carey Harrison •  Profane Reflections by Bill Casselman •  Sesquipedalian English by Richard Lederer •  Recipes & Remembrance by Kevin Mims •  Vocabula Revisited: What the Cat Drug In by Tina Bennett-Kastor •  Elegant English •  Clues to Concise Writing •  Scarcely Used Words •  Gotcha Grammar May 2012, Vol. 14, No. 5 •  From Hand Shakes to Fist Explosions: Greetings and Departures by Skip Eisiminger •  Footnotes to a Manifesto by Mark Halpern •  Wind Words Go Windwards by Bill Casselman •  Fiction: Connect the Dots by Brooke Horvath •  The Most Romantic of the Romantics by Clark Elder Morrow •  The Attraction of Opposites by Richard Lederer •  Vocabula Revisited: Black Holes by Julian Burnside •  Elegant English •  On Dimwitticisms •  Clues to Concise Writing •  Scarcely Used Words •  Gotcha Grammar June 2012, Vol. 14, No. 6 •  Don't Be That Way by Tina Bennett-Kastor •  Medieval Latin Words in English by Bill Casselman •  Hoosiers, Freud, and Virginia Woolf by John Kilgore •  Words That Never Stray by Richard Lederer •  The Law as Guru by Clark Elder Morrow •  One Sentence by Michael Berberich •  Vocabula Revisited: Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey •  Gotcha Grammar

July 2012, Vol. 14, No. 7 •  The Origin of the Word "Travel" and the Phrase "Beyond the Pale" by Bill Casselman •  Semicolons: A Function and a Tradition by Jeff Minick •  A Personal Reminiscence of Ray Bradbury by Clark Elder Morrow •  Body Language by Richard Lederer •  Do Androids Dream of Proto-Indo-European Fables About Sheep? by Sean Guynes •  Vocabula Revisited: Photoelectric, Baby: A Linguist Tackles Physics by Ada Brunstein •  Gotcha Grammar August 2012, Vol. 14, No. 8 •  Ball Talk by John Kilgore •  Primitive Primers: Early English Grammars by Clark Elder Morrow •  House Parts: Their Names and Word Origins, Part 1 of 4 by Bill Casselman •  Fiction: An Improbable Fiction: The Language of Shakespeare by Skip Eisiminger •  The Humanness of Language by Richard Lederer •  Book Excerpt: The Dimwit's Dictionary, Third Edition by Robert Hartwell Fiske •  Vocabula Revisited: Bad Writing Kills by Christopher D. Ringwald •  Gotcha Grammar September 2012, Vol. 14, No. 9 •  The 2012 Vocabula Well-Written Writing Contest Winners •  Yada, Yada, Yada, Cinderbella: The Miracle of Language Acquisition by Skip Eisiminger •  Against Feminist Newspeak by Bushra Iqbal •  Culture and Society: The Aurora Shootings: An Appreciation by John Kilgore •   I'm Inclined to Repine the Decline by Clark Elder Morrow •  Book Review: What's a Word's Worth? by Joseph Epstein •  House Parts: Their Names and Word Origins, Part 2 of 4 by Bill Casselman •  When the Name and the Game Are the Same by Richard Lederer •  Vocabula Revisited: Reflections on the Death of Learning byCarey Harrison •  Disagreeable English •  Elegant English •  Toward the Making of a Sentence •  Clues to Concise Writing •  Scarcely Used Words •  Gotcha Grammar October 2012, Vol. 14, No. 10 •  Pinker on Descriptivism vs. Prescriptivism by Mark Halpern •  The Department of Redundancy Department by Richard Lederer •  Of Human Binderage by John Kilgore •  Some Tips on Good Speechmaking by Clark Elder Morrow •   House Parts: Their Names and Word Origins, Part 3 of 4 by Bill Casselman •  What I Read, What I Baked, What I Wrote, and What I Ate by Kevin Mims •  Vocabula Revisited: Nifty Neologisms by Michael J. Sheehan •  Disagreeable English •  Elegant English •  Toward the Making of a Sentence •  Clues to Concise Writing •  Scarcely Used Words •  Gotcha Grammar November 2012, Vol. 14, No. 11 •  Sociolinguistic Analysis: Sick English: Medicalization in the English Language by Janet Byron Anderson •   The Eyes Have It by Richard Lederer •  Book Review: Jacques Barzun: His Life and His Life by Mark Halpern •  The Unknown Bohemian by Kevin Mims •  House Parts: Their Names and Word Origins, Part 4 of 4 by Bill Casselman •  Specialty Dictionary: Beauty, Thy Name Is ... by Leland Thoburn •  Vocabula Revisited: One, Two, Three by Verónica Albin •  Disagreeable English •  Elegant English •  Toward the Making of a Sentence •  Clues to Concise Writing •  Scarcely Used Words •  Gotcha Grammar December 2012, Vol. 14, No. 12 •  The Two Natures: A Sort of Philosophical Ramble, Complete with Apes, Medieval Sages, Gay Rights, Grammarians, False Teleology, Alexander Pope, and Blood-Drinking Martians: Parts 1 and 2 by John Kilgore •  Dolphin, The Swimming Womb by Bill Casselman •  It's About Time by Richard Lederer •  Culture and Society: A Christmas Meditation by Clark Elder Morrow •  Forty Pages to Go by Kevin Mims •  How a Great Detective Became Born Again by Richard Lederer •  Film Review: Django Unchained by Marion DS Dreyfus •  Vocabula Revisited: Cleaning Up My Act by Joseph Epstein •  Disagreeable English •  Elegant English •  Toward the Making of a Sentence •  Clues to Concise Writing •  Scarcely Used Words •  Gotcha Grammar