| Author |
Essay Title |
Date |
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Carey Harrison
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News from the Trenches: An English Professor Speaks
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April 2005
|
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Pamela Hewitt
|
The Perils of Publish or Perish
|
Jan. 2006
|
|
Mark Hochhauser
|
On the Incomprehensibility of Privacy Notices
|
Nov. 2002
|
|
Mark Hochhauser
|
Behavioral Writing: From Gobbledygook to Plain English
|
May 2003
|
|
Kerr Houston
|
The Age of Exploration
|
Nov. 2003
|
|
Kerr Houston
|
Bowl and Blood: An Essay on What Hangs Above Us
|
June 2004
|
|
Kerr Houston
|
Breve New World: Thoughts on an Emergent Pidgin
|
Jan. 2005
|
|
Kerr Houston
|
Phony Histories: A Vindication of False Etymologies
|
July 2005
|
|
Kerr Houston
|
The Shades of Dante: Thoughts on Unstable Eponyms
|
Sept. 2006
|
|
Kerr Houston
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Pages as Portals: On a Small Pleasure of Some Texts
|
July 2007
|
|
Kerr Houston
|
The Rehabilitation of Oftentimes
|
Feb. 2008
|
|
David Isaacson
|
Been There, Done That
|
Oct. 2001
|
|
David Isaacson
|
No Problem?
|
Feb. 2002
|
|
David Isaacson
|
Do You Know Where You're Coming From?
|
July 2002
|
|
David Isaacson
|
Like, He Said
|
Nov. 2002
|
|
David Isaacson
|
Kvetching About Literary Criticism
|
Mar. 2003
|
|
David Isaacson
|
Thoughts on "A society is generally as lax as its language"
|
Mar. 2004
|
|
David Isaacson
|
Code Switching
|
Oct. 2004
|
|
David Isaacson
|
Getting Nicked by Nicknames
|
Sept. 2005
|
|
David Isaacson
|
Drunk Words
|
June 2006
|
|
Sherri Mahoney Jacobs
|
Bless Your Heart, Evangelina: An Academic Ghost Story
|
Aug. 2008
|
|
Dawnelle Jager
|
How to Rite for Righting Teachers
|
May 2005
|
|
Pamela Jones
|
Words That Stab Like a Sword
|
July 2000
|
|
Konstantin Kakaes
|
Rhetoric and Reality
|
June 2002
|
|
Steven G. Kellman
|
Ain't We Got Fun?
|
Nov. 2003
|
|
Steven G. Kellman
|
Two Incendiary Authors
|
Dec. 2004
|
|
Joe Kelly
|
Kabbala of the Spin Top Vehicle
|
Oct. 2005
|
|
Henry Ansgar Kelly
|
Gin, Anyone? Or, How Did Gynecology Become a Guy Thing?
|
July 2008
|
|
Frank Keyes
|
Opposing Views on That and Which
|
July 2003
|
|
Frank Keyes
|
None Is or None Are?
|
Oct. 2003
|
|
Frank Keyes
|
On Some Deficiencies in Our American Dictionaries
|
June 2005
|
|
Frank Keyes
|
The Trouble with The Chicago Manual of Style (Why One Writer and One Editor Are on the Lam from the Chicago Mob)
|
Feb. 2007
|
|
Frank Keyes
|
Course Outlines and the English Language
|
June 2007
|
|
Frank Keyes
|
What to Do with a Dysfunctional Textbook? Or Where Have All the Editors Gone? Not to McGraw-Hill
|
Oct. 2007
|
|
Frank Keyes
|
How Not to Edit, or Seven Editing Sins
|
July 2008
|
|
John Kilgore
|
Why Teachers Can't Read Poetry
|
Feb. 2003
|
|
John Kilgore
|
Hamlet in the Closet
|
Nov. 2003
|
|
John Kilgore
|
Fiction: The Frog Princess
|
Apr. 2007
|
|
Brian Kimberling
|
Math and Meaning
|
Dec. 2003
|
|
Joseph Kimble
|
Book Excerpt: How to Write an Impeachment Order
|
April 2006
|
|
Barbara Ann Kipfer
|
Really Learning Your Word of the Day
|
Dec. 2005
|
|
Barbara Ann Kipfer
|
The Archaeology of English
|
Jan. 2006
|
|
Barbara Ann Kipfer
|
Using Learner's Dictionaries for Young Native Speakers
|
Feb. 2006
|
|
Barbara Ann Kipfer
|
Spell Well
|
Mar. 2006
|
|
Barbara Ann Kipfer
|
The Analysis of Meaning
|
May 2006
|
|
Barbara Ann Kipfer
|
On Diminutives
|
Sept. 2006
|
|
Jim Kittle
|
Satire: Tool of the Surgeon
|
Dec. 2003
|
|
Robert M. Knight
|
The Gap That Shouldn't Be
|
June 2004
|
|
Paula LaRocque
|
A Few Guidelines to Good Writing
|
Aug. 2003
|
|
Michael Larsen
|
In Search of Your Book's Most Powerful Sales Tool: Your Title
|
April 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Stamp Out Fadspeak!
|
Aug. 2000
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Politicians Incorrect
|
Oct. 2000
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Four Cheers Five Victor Borge
|
Feb. 2001
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Bush-Whacked Language
|
Apr. 2001
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Words and People
|
Aug. 2001
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Archie's Gone, But Not His Bunkerisms
|
Dec. 2001
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Happy Palindromic New Year
|
Jan. 2002
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Mark Twain and the English Language
|
Apr. 2002
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Jest for the Pun of It
|
Aug. 2002
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Playing with a Full Deck
|
Oct. 2002
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
A Teddy Bearish Centennial
|
Nov. 2002
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
The True Meanings of Christmas
|
Dec. 2002
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
A Noo-kyuh-lur Nonproliferation Treatise
|
Jan. 2003
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
The Okay Man Is Gone
|
Feb. 2003
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Haunted Words
|
Mar. 2003
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Words That Never Stray
|
April 2003
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
All-American Dialects
|
May 2003
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
A Declaration of Linguistic Independence
|
July 2003
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Doing a Number on English
|
Aug. 2003
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Weird and Wonderful Words
|
Sept. 2003
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
A Feast of Halloween Puns
|
Oct. 2003
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
The Greatest Dictionary
|
Nov. 2003
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
The Abdominal Snowman
|
Dec. 2003
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Our Star-Struck Language
|
Jan. 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
An Irish Bull Is Always Pregnant
|
Mar. 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
English Is Everywhere
|
April 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Fairly Familiar Phrases
|
May 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
|
June 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
The Glamour of Grammar
|
July 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
We Are All Language Inventors
|
Aug. 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
A Primer of Political Etymology
|
Sept. 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Words About Our Presidents
|
Oct. 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Beautiful English
|
Nov. 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Inaugural Addresses: Omens of Things to Come
|
Dec. 2004
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
A Stylish Inauguration Speech
|
Jan. 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
The Miracle of Language
|
Feb. 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Euphemisms: The Fig Leaves of Language
|
Mar. 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
No Harmless Drudge: A Quatrimillennial Celebration
|
April 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
A Guide to Teenspeak
|
May 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
The Way We Word
|
June 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
A Little Bit of Comma Sense
|
July 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Serving up a Tennis Slogan: Jest for the Pun of It
|
Aug. 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
A Tense Time with Verbs
|
Sept. 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Halloween Word Prey in a Jugular Vein
|
Oct. 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Lost in Translation
|
Nov. 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Name That Christmas Carol
|
Dec. 2005
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Putting on the Dog
|
Feb. 2006
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Find the Hidden Dogs
|
Mar. 2006
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
On Palindromes
|
April 2006
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Classic References
|
May 2006
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Play Ball!
|
June 2006
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Jose, Can You See?
|
July 2006
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
How I Write
|
Aug. 2006
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Brave New Words
|
Sept. 2006
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Word Frequency Lists Tell Us Who We Are
|
Oct. 2006
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Sex and the Singular Pronoun
|
Nov. 2006
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
A Pun-thology of Holiday Songs
|
Dec. 2006
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
... And a Happy New Year
|
Jan. 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Oys and Joys
|
Feb. 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
When Irish Words Are Smiling
|
Mar. 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Plane Talk
|
Apr. 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Literature Lives!
|
May 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
The Circus of Words
|
June 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Our Abounding English Language
|
July 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Like, Where Is Our Language Going
|
Aug. 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Out on a Limerick
|
Sept. 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
On The Trail of Limericks and Gimmicks
|
Oct. 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Words That Get Their Act Together
|
Nov. 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
The Night Prior to Christmas
|
Dec. 2007
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Sound and Sense
|
Jan. 2008
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Confessions of a Verbivore
|
Feb. 2008
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Cut the Verbal Fat
|
Mar. 2008
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
The World According to Student Bloopers
|
April 2008
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
English Is a Crazy Language
|
May 2008
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Our Crazy English Expressions
|
June 2008
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
Our Crazy English Language
|
July 2008
|
|
Richard Lederer
|
English Is Weird
|
Aug. 2008
|
|
Mary C. Legg
|
The Art of Shoddy Writing: Anthony Tommasini's New York Times Music Reviews
|
July 2003
|
|
Seth Lerer
|
Book Excerpt: Hello, Dude: Mark Twain and the Making of the American Idiom
|
July 2007
|
|
Paul M. Levitt
|
The University as a House of Argument
|
Dec. 2006
|
|
Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum
|
Book Excerpt: Far from the Madding Gerund
|
June 2006
|
|
Christopher Lord
|
Writing: The Democratization of American Letters
|
Nov. 2001
|
|
Christopher Lord
|
Spelling
|
Feb. 2002
|
|
Anna Jean Mallinson
|
Small Talk
|
Feb. 2005
|
|
Anna Jean Mallinson
|
An The A
|
Aug. 2005
|
|
Anna Jean Mallinson
|
Three-in-One
|
May 2006
|
|
Paul McFedries
|
A Mosaic of New Words
|
Mar. 2004
|
|
Robert McHenry
|
Shoptalk
|
Aug. 2002
|
|
Robert McHenry
|
Rendering unto Caesar Even That Which Is Not His
|
Nov. 2002
|
|
Robert McHenry
|
Words and Powers
|
Dec. 2002
|
|
Robert McHenry
|
The Law of PeepeePoopoo
|
April 2003
|
|
Robert McHenry
|
Pornographorhea
|
July 2003
|
|
Robert McHenry
|
Knowing Words
|
Sept. 2003
|
|
John E. McIntyre
|
Arabber
|
Oct. 2007
|
|
Greg McPeake
|
Birdheart
|
Jan. 2002
|
|
Peter Meltzer
|
Book Excerpt: In Search of a Better Thesaurus
|
Dec. 2005
|
|
Allan Metcalf
|
The Myth of Gaps
|
Oct. 2002
|
|
Bill Miles
|
Killin' Me Softly with Your Verbs
|
Nov. 2000
|
|
Kevin Mims
|
Brother, Can You Spare a Question?
|
Aug. 2005
|
|
Kevin Mims
|
The Ultimate Legal Thriller
|
Dec. 2005
|
|
John Mason Mings
|
Mome Raths Outgrabe
|
May 2005
|
|
Richard Mitchell
|
Literary Classic: Why Good Grammar?
|
Sept. 2002
|
|
Mark Morton
|
Organ Solo: Masturbation Words
|
Dec. 2003
|
|
Mark Morton
|
Nibbles from Cupboard Love
|
Nov. 2004
|
|
Ira Nayman
|
The Perfect Word Is the One That Will Do
|
July 2004
|
|
Johann Neem
|
Bush's Postmodernism
|
Nov. 2004
|
|
John W. Nelson
|
Sayonara, Mr. Fowler: On the Use and Abuse of Foreign Words and Phrases
|
Aug. 2003
|
|
Sean O'Malley
|
Houses Made of Cards: Inquiry Assignments and Borrowed Arguments in University Writing Classes
|
Sept. 2007
|
|
Christopher Orlet
|
The Last Words
|
Mar. 2002
|
|
Rosemarie Ostler
|
Book Excerpt: Politics as Usual
|
July 2008
|
|
Alan Pagliere
|
The Wrong-Headedness of Linguistic Self-Righteousness
|
Dec. 1999
|
|
Mark Painter
|
Life and Death Punctuation
|
Mar. 2004
|
|
Mark Painter
|
Fallout from the Battle of Hastings
|
Aug. 2005
|
|
Mark Painter
|
Gender Matters
|
April 2008
|
|
John L. Pattillo
|
Sound Off: Oxymoron: A Contradiction That Isn't
|
May 2007
|
|
Mark Peters
|
Can a Warlord Be a Dingbat?
|
Aug. 2004
|
|
Mark Peters
|
Campers, Mediums, and Pigs: A Look at the Word Happy
|
Feb. 2005
|
|
Mark Peters
|
The Ooohs and Ahs and Ooh-La-Las: A Look at Interjections
|
June 2005
|
|
Mark Peters
|
Kicked to the Verb
|
Sept. 2005
|
|
Mark Peters
|
A Dog's Breakfast of Canine Colloquialisms
|
Feb. 2006
|
|
Mark Peters
|
Oxford: The Final Frontier
|
June 2007
|
|
Paul Povse
|
A Litter of Clichés
|
Sept. 2003
|
|
Arnold Rabin |
Book Excerpt: The Sexual Guide to Written Intercourse, Fulfilling Grammar, and Seductive Usage
|
May 2007
|
|
Hugh Rank
|
Literary Classic: Mr. Orwell, Mr. Schlesinger, and the Language
|
Dec. 2006
|
|
Clifton Raphael
|
Sound Off: Spell, Memory!
|
Dec. 2003
|
|
Christopher D. Ringwald
|
Bad Writing Kills
|
July 2005
|
|
Christopher D. Ringwald
|
Equal in Name and Fact
|
July 2006
|
|
Tom Roeper
|
Book Excerpt: Grammar's Gift to Our Image of Human Nature
|
Aug. 2007
|
|
Aaron Rosenberg
|
Collective Nouns
|
May 2004
|
|
David Sacks
|
Little Letters, Big Idea
|
Sept. 2004
|
|
Habeeb Salloum
|
Arabic Influences in the English Language
|
Oct. 2000
|
|
Habeeb Salloum
|
English Words of Arabic Origin
|
June 2001
|
|
Habeeb Salloum
|
The Odyssey of the Arabic Language
|
Oct. 2001
|
|
Pamela Saur
|
East Mount Olive Baptist Church Day Care Center and Other Problematic Compound Nouns
|
Apr. 2007
|
|
Pamela Saur
|
Words Both Living and Dead: Archaic and Obsolete Terms
|
Dec. 2007
|
|
Pamela Saur
|
Language and the Human Species
|
June 2008
|
|
Eric Scheske
|
Read Free!
|
Oct. 2003
|
|
Eric Scheske
|
Grammar, Art, and the F-Word
|
Feb. 2004
|
|
Fred R. Shapiro
|
Book Excerpt: Words About Words from The Yale Book of Quotations
|
Oct. 2006
|
|
Michael J. Sheehan
|
Double Your Pleasure
|
Nov. 2000
|
|
Michael J. Sheehan
|
Future Imperfect
|
Mar. 2001
|
|
Michael J. Sheehan
|
Student Bloopers
|
July 2001
|
|
Michael J. Sheehan
|
Dum & Dummer
|
Jan. 2002
|
|
Michael J. Sheehan
|
Mach 1
|
May 2002
|
|
Michael J. Sheehan
|
Nifty Neologisms
|
Mar. 2003
|
|
Michael J. Sheehan
|
Ollie, Ollie, -Ologist
|
Nov. 2003
|
|
Michael J. Sheehan
|
Twenty-Seven Feet of Measured Confusion
|
Feb. 2004
|
|
Michael J. Sheehan
|
Hue and Cry
|
Sept. 2004
|
|
Michael J. Sheehan
|
guardian | guidewords
|
Mar. 2005
|
|
Michael J. Sheehan
|
Squinting, Straddling, and Dangling
|
July 2006
|
|
Rebecca Sheir
|
The Good Word
|
Jan. 2004
|
|
Tracy Lee Simmons
|
Getting the Words Right
|
Dec. 2000
|
|
Tracy Lee Simmons
|
Writing Right
|
July 2004
|
|
Tracy Lee Simmons
|
Johnson's Canon: On the Trail of the Great Lexicographer
|
Aug. 2006
|
|
John Worsley Simpson
|
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary: Obtuse Indeed
|
Nov. 2005
|
|
John Worsley Simpson
|
It's PRE-posterous
|
Oct. 2006
|
|
John Worsley Simpson
|
Misuse of Beg the Question Is Not Problematic
|
Dec. 2006
|
|
Herb Swett
|
Medical Terms
|
July 2008
|
|
Billy Thompson
|
Words Don't Fail Me Now
|
June 2008
|
|
jjoan ttaber
|
GÏÕÑ þµ ‡€ †¥ ÅE ðÿšŽë [Honk If You're Etruscan]
|
Feb. 2005
|
|
Peter Trudgill
|
Converse Terms, Polysemy, and Respect for Nonstandard Dialects
|
June 2003
|
|
Bob Wakulich
|
The Death Rattle of the Collective Noun
|
Feb. 2003
|
|
Barbara Wallraff
|
Getting the Answers You Want
|
May 2004
|
|
David Wedge
|
PETA Goes Wild — Wants Dictionary to Jump Through Hoops
|
July 2006
|
|
Richard Weiner
|
Book Excerpt: The Skinny About Best Boys, Dollies, Green Rooms, Leads, and Other Media Lingo
|
Nov. 2006
|
|
Lawrence Weinstein
|
Book Excerpt: Passive Voice
|
April 2008
|
|
Penny Wilkes
|
Come to Your Senses: Develop an Extra Sensory Writing Habit
|
May 2007
|
|
Penny Wilkes
|
How to Develop a Muscular Verb Habit: Awareness of How Not "to Be"
|
Aug. 2008
|
|
Julianne Will
|
But What if it Really Is Fantabulous?
|
April 2008
|
|
David R. Williams
|
Snobs and Slobs
|
Feb. 2001
|
|
David R. Williams
|
Clichés
|
May 2001
|
|
David R. Williams
|
Empowering or Cowering
|
Oct. 2001
|
|
David R. Williams
|
Christian Dogs and Politicians
|
Apr. 2002
|
|
David R. Williams
|
The Prepositional Excremental
|
Sept. 2002
|
|
David R. Williams
|
Still Ignorant After All These Years
|
April 2005
|
|
Philip Yaffe
|
How to Improve Your Writing by Standing on Your Head
|
Dec. 2007
|
|
Philip Yaffe
|
Can Learning Languages Help You Better Understand Science and Technology?
|
Aug. 2008
|
|
Abbas Zaidi
|
An English-Language Speaker's Survival Guide in Pakistan
|
July 2004
|
|
Abbas Zaidi
|
Euphemisms: World as Text and Text as World
|
Dec. 2004
|
|
Mark Zimmermann
|
On the Comma's Cutting Edge
|
Aug. 2003
|
|
Mark Zimmermann
|
Since 2001, Nothing About "Us" Has Changed
|
Feb. 2004
|
|
Paul Zolbrod
|
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Lost Legacy
|
Dec. 2002
|
|
Paul Zolbrod
|
The Rosy Fingers of a Navajo Dawn: New Light on Old Literature at a Tribal College
|
Oct. 2007
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