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Verónica Albin

Wor(l)ds

Essay Title	Date
Names, Nemeses, Nameses	Jan. 2008
Duty, Honor, Country	April 2008
One, Two, Three	July 2008

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Bill Casselman

Bethumped with Words

Essay Title	Date
Four Northern Words Flenched	Jan. 2005
The Word Ptarmigan Plooks Pfunny	Feb. 2005
Snow Motto Has Ancient Source	Mar. 2005
Diana Krall: The Meaning of Her Names	April 2005
Latin Clavis Is the Keyword	May 2005
Origin of the Racist Slur Wop	June 2005
Summer and the Words for Seasons of the Year	July 2005
Wog! Origin of a Racist Insult	Aug. 2005
Hysteria: The Just Death of a Medical Word	Sept. 2005
Sockeye Salmon: A British Columbia Word	Oct. 2005
Our Naughty Bits and the Surprising Origin of Their Proper Medical Terms	Nov. 2005
Hello! Ciao! Ave Atque Vale! — The Origin of Some Words of Greeting	Dec. 2005
Prairie: A Word Born in a Roman Meadow	Jan. 2006
The Surprising Meaning of his Surname — And Oops! Mozart's Given Name Amadeus Is Ungrammatical Latin	Feb. 2006
The Names of the Great Lakes	Mar. 2006
Plantagenets and Plantar Wart: Their Connection	April 2006
Origin of the Name Italy	May 2006
Sebum: Origin of the Word	June 2006
Angelica: The Angels' Herb and Diaghilev's Surname	July 2006
Origin of the Surnames Abbott and McNab	Aug. 2006
The Word Lore of Birch	Sept. 2006
Gougou: Canadian Monster Deluxe	Oct. 2006
To Parp a Klaxon?	Nov. 2006
My Lords and Ladies, Your Origins, Please!	Dec. 2006
Oodles of Schnoodles: Revolting New Dog Names	Jan. 2007
No Rhyme for the Word Orange? Poppycock!	Feb. 2007
Autoneokakonymia: Bad Names for New Cars	Mar. 2007
Oh, For the Love of Mike!	Apr. 2007
Yo Coach!	May 2007
A Swarm of Bee Words	June 2007
The Vein with the Wrong Name	July 2007
Cappuccino and Its Monkish Origin	Aug. 2007
A Blunt History of the Word Cunt	Sept. 2007
Skater-Punk Onomastics: Avril Lavigne's Names	Oct. 2007
Sputnik: True Origin of the Word	Nov. 2007
Catnip, Catnap, and Cat Word	Dec. 2007
Champagne: Origin of the Name	Jan. 2008
The Cryosphere Is Not the World of Soap Operas	Feb. 2008
The Latin Word for Rope: Funis	Mar. 2008
Dimitri Anatolevich Medvedev: Etymology of the Names of the New Russian President	April 2008
English Words Borrowed from Chinese	May 2008
Twat: The Origin of a Rude Word	June 2008
Juniper & Gin: From Landscape to Larynx	July 2008
Of Lariats, Lassoes, & Lou Dobbs	Aug. 2008
Barack Obama: The True Meaning of His Given Name	Sept. 2008
Lake Huron Is a Racist Insult	Oct. 2008
Rare Verbal Gems	Nov. 2008
What's Behind the Word Fanny?	Dec. 2008
Nano-scaffold and a New Etymology of its Greek Root nanos	Jan. 2009
Peanut: Arachis Hypogaea — Origin of the Names	Feb. 2009
A Goy Gives the Origin of Four Yiddish Words? A Chaloshes!	Mar. 2009
Ponzi: Caught in the Wizard's Womb of Fraud	April 2009
Vampire Squids from Hell: Odd Names in Zoology	May 2009
Nudnik, Nogoodnik, and Nu: the Russian Origins of Three Yiddish Words	June 2009
Soap and Its Word Origin	July 2009
Galilee: Origin of a Hebrew Place Name	Sept. 2009
A Figment of Etymology	Oct. 2009
Etymology of a Loaded Word: Celibate	Nov. 2009
Bastard!	Dec. 2009
Obscure Verbs of Leaping	Jan. 2010
Schiaparelli: A Renowned Coutourière’s Italian Surname Traced to Its Origins	Feb. 2010
Hat Trick	Mar. 2010
It's Wrong, Deer. Quite Wrong!	April 2010
St. John's Wort: Its Benefits Both Mystical and Medical	May 2010
Frog! The Origin of a Racist Insult	June 2010
Potty-Mouth: Clean Thoughts on a "Dirty" Synonym	July 2010
Chode/Chod: A Newish Dirty Word	Aug. 2010
Circus: The Origin of the Word	Sept. 2010
Windigo: Cannibal Fiend of the North Woods	Oct. 2010
Horse Sense	Nov. 2010
Herb as Word	Dec. 2010
Winterbourne, a Winter Word	Jan. 2011
The Bogus Word Paraprosdokian and Lazy Con Artists of Academe	Feb. 2011
The Origin of Amuse Is Not Amusing!	Mar. 2011
Tabula Rasa: A Useful Latin Phrase	April 2011
Billet-Doux	May 2011
The Many Names of Egypt	June 2011

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Adam Freedman

Letter of the Law

Essay Title	Date
Don't Want Clever Conversation	Oct. 2007
All About Eaves	Nov. 2007
William Shakespeare, Attorney-at-Law	Dec. 2007
Meet John Doe	Jan. 2008
Food, Felonies, and Fun	Feb. 2008
Poetic Justice	Mar. 2008
Taxing Vocabulary	April 2008
Heir Today	May 2008
Habeas Corpus and All That	June 2008
Meet the Flintlocks	July 2008
A Lawyer by Any Other Name	Aug. 2008
Faith Lift	Sept. 2008
The World According to TARP	Oct. 2008
Footnotes*	Nov. 2008
Nice Work	Dec. 2008
Don't Be Cruel	Jan. 2009
When Corporations Fall in Love	Feb. 2009
Patently Obvious	Mar. 2009
Excuses, Excuses	April 2009
Frenemy Combatants	May 2009
Fleeting Expletives	June 2009
1776 and All That	July 2009
Wee the People	Sept. 2009
The Most Important Word in the Constitution	Oct. 2009
Mid the Canon's Roar	Nov. 2009
Criminal Slanguage	Dec. 2009
Is Washington Filibusted?	Jan. 2010
Boilerplate Special	Feb. 2010
Cents and Sensibility	Mar. 2010
Taxonomy and Spend	April 2010
Well, I'll Be Hanged	May 2010

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Amalia Gnanadesikan

Postcards from Babel

Essay Title	Date
Of Mangoes, Curry, and Catamarans	May 2004
All the Rivers Around Here Are Dutch	June 2004
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe	July 2004
On Withstanding Werewolves	Sept. 2004
The Man Who Died of Thirst in the Dessert	Oct. 2004
On Learning to Read	Nov. 2004
Turtles All the Way Down	Jan. 2005
A Grimm Tale	Feb. 2005
Conversations with the Dead	Mar. 2005
Travels of an Eggplant	May 2005
The Way We Talk Anymore	June 2005
Are We Related?	July 2005
Words Are Not Enough	Sept. 2005
Mouths of Babes	Oct. 2005
Change and Decay: Confessions of a Descriptive Linguist	Dec. 2005
Language: Going to the Dogs?	Jan. 2006
Design Your Own Language	April 2006
For Your Ears Only	June 2006
The Sound of One Hand Clapping	Jan. 2007
Where Are You From?	Apr. 2007
The Three Little Pigs Learn Latin	Sept. 2007
Lies My Alphabet Told Me	Aug. 2008
Gained in Translation	Jan. 2009
A Charm of Powerful Trouble	April 2009
When Is a Language Not a Language?	June 2009
tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a'? (Do You Speak Klingon?)	Jan. 2010
The Stuff of Thought	Sept. 2010
Please Don't Say What You Mean	Dec. 2010

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Mark Halpern

The Critical Reader

Essay Title	Date
The Meaning of Postmodernism in an Age of Terrorism	July 2002
Must We Burn Roget?; Elliott on Imperialism	Aug. 2002
The Meaning of Objectivity: Part 1	Nov. 2002
The Meaning of Objectivity: Part 2	Dec. 2002
Orwell Suffers the Death of a Thousand Cuts	Feb. 2003
Our Friends, the Paradox and the Problem	Mar. 2003
"It's Safe to Predict ..." — Yes, Unfortunately	April 2003
An Ode to Science: Bird Thou Never Wert	May 2003
O, What a Noble Mind Is Here O'erthrown: Posner on Plagiarism	June 2003
Professor Trudgill Is Puzzled	July 2003
Birds of a Feather: On Hating "Hate"	Aug. 2003
Erin McKean and Robert Hartwell Fiske on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary	Sept. 2003
Replies to Michael Glazer, David Wilton, and Bob McHenry	Oct. 2003
Two Worrisome Thoughts	Nov. 2003
A Sipid List That Will Live in Famy: Unrecorded Positives Formed from Unbalanced Negatives	Feb. 2004
Editing as You Would Be Edited: Part I	April 2004
Editing as You Would Be Edited: Part II	May 2004
Editing as You Would Be Edited: Part III	June 2004
Editing as You Would Be Edited: Part IV	July 2004
Editing as You Would Be Edited: Part V	Aug. 2004
Editing as You Would Be Edited: Part VI	Sept. 2004
Key Words of Our Time: Fuzzy Logic	Nov. 2004
Key Words of Our Time: Order of Magnitude	Dec. 2004
Key Words of Our Time: Curling up with a Good Dimension	Jan. 2005
When a Species Needs a Pal	Mar. 2005
Three Reflections on American Humanistic Scholarship	May 2005
Just a Few Rotten Apples, or Duffy's Dopiness	June 2005
As for Killing, Our Servants Will Do That for Us	Sept. 2005
Critical Terms: Taxes — Do We Hate the Word or the Thing?	Nov. 2005
A Descriptivist Manifesto: Geoffrey Pullum Sets Us All Straight	July 2006
Richard Posner, Expert on Plagiarism, Fails to Copy from Someone When It Counts	Feb. 2007
On the Internet, Everyone Is a Dog: A Review	Apr. 2007
The Trojan Laptop	Jan. 2008
The Root of Political Correctness	Feb. 2008
You Make Me Sick: Symptoms as Arguments	July 2008
Rescuing the Hero	Aug. 2008
Through Darkest Internet with Miss Thistlebottom as Guide and Protector	Sept. 2008
Some Problems with Editors (or Private Vices, Public Benefits)	Dec. 2008
Prescriptivism and Descriptivism: What Are They at Root?	May 2009
Prescriptivism and Descriptivism, Part 2: A Descriptivist in Action	June 2009
An Appreciation: G. J. Toomer, John Selden: A Life in Scholarship	May 2010

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Carey Harrison

Harrison's Corner

Essay Title	Date
May Days	May 2005
Dog-Days	June 2005
Hey-Days	July 2005
Away-Days	Aug. 2005
Oy-weh! Days	Sept. 2005
Gray Days	Oct. 2005
Hurrah-Days	Nov. 2005
Outré-Days	Dec. 2005
Pass/Fail Days	Jan. 2006
The Pigeons on the Grass, Alas	Mar. 2006
Dipthongs in the Wind	April 2006
Prose, Not Hoes	May 2006
Duffy and Quinn	June 2006
Tongues on the Bench	July 2006
Twice in Trouble?	Aug. 2006
When the Past Was Strong	Sept. 2006
News from the Front, Once More	Nov. 2006
Anyone for Rhinoceri?	Dec. 2006
Present-Tense Proust Project	Jan. 2007
Recently, in the Cretaceous	Feb. 2007
College English in the Classroom	Mar. 2007
However Is for Wimps	Apr. 2007
Au Revoir, Philistines	May 2007
Gnome Sane?	July 2007
Historic Days	Aug. 2007
Millions Dead	Sept. 2007
Rise of the Nothings	Oct. 2007
The Last Words You'll Ever Hear	Nov. 2007
Shakespeare's Sonnets	Dec. 2007
Breaking the Codes	Jan. 2008
"SV" Disease — Is There a Cure?	Feb. 2008
Enter the Universal Buttock	Mar. 2008
Connecting to the Web	April 2008
The South American Novel, Alas	May 2008
Me and Him Go to the Mall	June 2008
Letting Bygones Be Bygones	July 2008
How Was That Again?	Aug. 2008
Quiz, and After	Sept. 2008
Momentous News	Oct. 2008
Hieroglyphics, or What Sophocles Knew	Nov. 2008
Mashie-Niblicks of the World, Unite!	Dec. 2008
Justine and After	Jan. 2009
The Truffles of Absurdity	Feb. 2009
She Seek Connie Dad	Mar. 2009
Beyond Laziness	April 2009
Rip Van Winkle Writes	May 2009
Keisha Clothes Dirty	June 2009
Bad to Worse	July 2009
The Incident of the Goat	Sept. 2009
Cliquez Ici	Oct. 2009
A Student Writes	Nov. 2009
Dangerous Men	Dec. 2009
Todo es Nada	Jan. 2010
Nation Out to Lunch	Feb. 2010
Reflections on the Death of Learning	Mar. 2010
Name That Tree	April 2010
Corporate Woods	May 2010
It's Out There	June 2010
Shakespeare Farewell, Once More	Aug. 2010
The Mole in the Earthquake	Sept. 2010
Farv and Murv	Oct. 2010
Swell, Buster!	Nov. 2010
It's Not That Big of a Deal	Dec. 2010
The Virus of Ignorance	Feb. 2011
An Appreciation: The Great Mystery of Words	May 2011

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David Isaacson

Vogue Words and Buzz Phrases

Essay Title	Date
Don't Give Me Attitude	Jan. 2007
Face Time and Human Interface	Feb. 2007
Excremental Choices	Mar. 2007
Get a Life	Apr. 2007
Are You Still Working on That?	May 2007
Multitasking	June 2007
Awesome	July 2007
Uptalk	Aug. 2007
Whatever	Sept. 2007
Don't Quit Your Day Job	Oct. 2007
Judgmental	Nov. 2007
Who "Is" We?	Dec. 2007
My Bad	Jan. 2008
Elitist	Feb. 2008
Sharing	Mar. 2008
Doctoring Language	April 2008
Electronic Language: Between Speech and Writing	May 2008
24-7	June 2008
Let's Not Go There	July 2008
Paradigm	Aug. 2008
Unctuous "We" Reconsidered	Sept. 2008
Icon	Oct. 2008
Closure	Nov. 2008
Significant Other	Dec. 2008

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John Kilgore

Shibboleths

Essay Title	Date
Fooling the Gender Genie	Jan. 2004
Love and Biology: A Valentine's Essay	Feb. 2004
Of Babes and Babel	May 2004
Marriage in Wonderland	Sept. 2004
Comp 101	Oct. 2004
Translations from the British	Nov. 2004
Frisking the Governor's Daughter: On Puns	Jan. 2005
Little House in the Culture Wars	April 2005
The Uses of Euphony	July 2005
Crossing the Jordan: Four Meditations on Usage — Parts 1 and 2	Sept. 2005
Crossing the Jordan: Four Meditations on Usage — Part 3	Oct. 2005
Crossing the Jordan: Four Meditations on Usage — Part 4	Nov. 2005
Dispatches from Pronoun Hell	Jan. 2006
Humpty-Dumpty in Lake Woebegon: On Grades and Grade Inflation	Feb. 2006
Expressive Solecism	June 2006
Notes from the Department of Redundancy Department	Aug. 2006
The Gypsy Canon: Idioms and Catchphrases	Nov. 2006
Zombie Metaphors	Mar. 2007
In Praise of Inattention	Aug. 2007
War and Self-Deception	Oct. 2007
Yuma Blues	Feb. 2008
Shooting Stars	Mar. 2008
Eviction Notices	Nov. 2008
On Being a Jerk	April 2009
Welcome to Country Music	Feb. 2010
Notes on a Yellow Pickup	Dec. 2010
Two Thousand Words About a Word	April 2011
Literally Hateful	June 2011

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Robert Knight

Knight on the Journalistic Style

Essay Title	Date
How to Ensure No One Will Read Your Words: Why We Need Action Verbs and the Energy They Inject	Nov. 2010
The Well-Crafted Intro	Dec. 2010
Play the Music, Practice the Skill	Jan. 2011
Misusing English for Propaganda and Profit	Feb. 2011
Journalism? Academic, My Dear Wordsmiths	Mar. 2011
Journalism, Toon-Writing and the Space–Time Continuum	April 2011

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Kevin Mims

The Common Reader

Essay Title	Date
Notes on the Inscription Affliction	Jan. 2006
A Call for a Punctuation Reformation	Feb. 2006
The Trouble with Trilogies, and Other Musings	Mar. 2006
Language Lessons from Another World	April 2006
Victoria's Secret Language	May 2006
Touching the Net	June 2006
The Language of Low Finance	Aug. 2006
On Zoos and Refuges	Oct. 2006
Big Dick and the Micrometer Man: Catchphrases from the Cubicles	Nov. 2006
Requiem for a Chain Store	Dec. 2006
The Sacred and the Profane: Advice on Storytelling	Jan. 2007
The Jumping Man	Feb. 2007
The Elemerts of Styl	Mar. 2007
The Freelancer's Dilemma	Apr. 2007
The Adjustor, the Vestige, and the King of Cashews	May 2007
Cubicle Days	June 2007
The Adventures of Steve Stryker: A Tale of the Writing Life	July 2007
The Adventures of Steve Stryker: A Tale of the Writing Life — Part II	Aug. 2007
The Adventures of Steve Stryker: A Tale of the Writing Life — Part III	Sept. 2007
Spiral Man	Oct. 2007
Chinese Whispers	Nov. 2007
Them's Crying Words: "You was my brother" and Other Lines That Evoke Tears, Chills, and Sobs	Dec. 2007
Captain Shiner, Sheryl Cacciatore, the Phantom Shopper, and the Thief of Dreams	Jan. 2008
Kokopelli: A Tale of the Writing Life	Feb. 2008
How to KISSASS	Mar. 2008
Granny's Memory Book	April 2008
Friends with OCD: More Adventures in Freelancing	May 2008
Happy Camper?	June 2008
We Are but a Moment's Sunlight: Reflections on George Carlin and Sister Frances Jacobs	July 2008
The Bard of Foreclosure	Aug. 2008
Schruting, Flonkerton, & Pretendinitis	Sept. 2008
Halloween Reading	Oct. 2008
The Celine Dialogs	Nov. 2008
The WOW Factor (Or Reflections on a Year of Reading Classic Children's Books)	Dec. 2008
Thinking in Sonnets	Jan. 2009
Christina Rossetti: Poet, Muse, Lover	Feb. 2009
Elinore Reark's Grand Tour	May 2009
Still Begging the Question	June 2009
Letters to Rudi	Feb. 2010
Roosters: Encounters with Barry Hannah and Horton Foote	Mar. 2010
Bound for the Orient	April 2010
Read Any Good Maps Lately?	May 2010
The Chatterlings in Wordland	June 2010
The Sophie Stories	July 2010
A Secret About Love	Sept. 2010
The Language and Literature of the Hebrides	Oct. 2010
In the Realms of the Insolvent: A Booklover Falls on Hard Times	Nov. 2010
A Glutton for Publishment: A Defense of Underachievers, Middle-Aged Wannabes, and Loudon Wainwright Jr.	Dec. 2010
Life Lessons from Barsetshire	Jan. 2011
Dancing on Oatmeal: Helen Robertson's Grand Tour	Mar. 2011

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Clark Elder Morrow

The Elder Statesman

Essay Title	Date
Operation Spin This	June 2002
Planetmates	July 2002
Allegory: The Land of Hope and Glory	Aug. 2002
Mr. Goldentongue	Sept. 2002
The Proud and the Pitiful	Oct. 2002
Crash of the Titans	Nov. 2002
Movies, Masks, and Music	Dec. 2002
Of Apes and Apprentices	Jan. 2003
Oliver Wendell Who?	Feb. 2003
A Philosophical Dialogue Between Nature and Supernature	Mar. 2003
A Bit of Lit Crit for a Brit Flit Hit	April 2003
A Fable	May 2003
Three Studies in Style	June 2003
Snarking the Wire Weenies	July 2003
Cheesed Off at the Chowderheads	Aug. 2003
The Bawd and the Ballerina	Sept. 2003
My Life as an Owl, Part Uno	Oct. 2003
My Life as an Owl, Part Dos	Nov. 2003
Child's Play with Words	Dec. 2003
A Queen, Not a Goddess	Jan. 2004
The Forgotten Prophet	Feb. 2004
Why the Early Sixties Was Better Than the Late Sixties	Mar. 2004
Professor Sobersides on "Funny Words"	April 2004
How Not to Write Broadway Lyrics	May 2004
Oscar Wilde Meets the Cartoon Network	June 2004
The Voices of Reason	July 2004
Quick! Name That Threat!	Aug. 2004
A Gimcrack Glossary	Sept. 2004
The Lost Art of the Jeremiad	Oct. 2004
What I Learned in Sin City	Nov. 2004
Concerning Taste There Can Be Dispute	Dec. 2004
English Romantic Poets and ... Hollywood?	Jan. 2005
An Absurdly Brief History of English Prose Style	Feb. 2005
Titbits from the Tanakh	Mar. 2005
On Wit	April 2005
Isocrates v. Joshua: Divergent Ideals of Education in Ancient Greece and Israel	May 2005
Being Pithy	June 2005
The Secret Lives of Letters	July 2005
Are Writers Overrated?	Aug. 2005
Let's Build a Poem	Sept. 2005
Characters of Color	Oct. 2005
Fairy Tales, Fables, and Christmas	Dec. 2005
To "Era" Is Human	Jan. 2006
Someone You Should Know	Feb. 2006
Yestercentury	Mar. 2006
Blueskying in Lotusland	April 2006
Bawdy: Lifting the Skirt on a Neglected Genre	May 2006
Childhood in Literature	June 2006
Thoughts on a National Language	Dec. 2006
Every Word a Poem	Jan. 2007
A Traipse Through Johnson's Dictionary	Feb. 2007
Excuse Me, But All Your Efforts Are Useless	Apr. 2007
Self-Esteem vs. Self-Respect	May 2007
Let Shakespeare Be Shakespeare	June 2007
Deconstruction = Destruction	July 2007
A Retro Look at Faculties	Sept. 2007
The "Rot" of Henry James	Oct. 2007
GripeFest 2007	Nov. 2007
Prayer as Literature	Dec. 2007
Snake-Oiling the Critics	Jan. 2008
WFB RIP	Mar. 2008
Inamorata	May 2008
Nobility	Sept. 2008
Two Views of Jargonland	Dec. 2008
Words Are Important, But Is Even God Himself a Word?	July 2009
Woman as Heavenly Tour Guide	Sept. 2009
Words That Need Rescuing	Oct. 2009
Memory Between the Covers	Nov. 2009
Anatomy of a Word (and an Obsession)	Dec. 2009
Some Tools of Our Trade	Jan. 2010
A Perfect Mess	Mar. 2010
Me and Mr. Junkhead	April 2010
A Different Sort of Scholarship	May 2010
In the Classroom of the Gods	June 2010
Sex Talk: A Study in Gender Differentiation	July 2010
Constable and the Limits of Expression	Aug. 2010
The Oracle of Eros	Sept. 2010
Human Nature and Books	Nov. 2010
Oscillating Words and Wandering Wombs	Dec. 2010
A Primer on Sapanese	Jan. 2011
Academese	Feb. 2011
Fictions, Legal and Otherwise	Mar. 2011
Fictions, Legal and Otherwise	Mar. 2011
The Self-Mutilation of the OED	April 2011
The "Pimp-Ho-John" Lexicon	May 2011
The Language of Music Criticism	June 2011

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Chris Orlet

The Last Word

Essay Title	Date
Proverbs Reconsidered	Sept. 2002
What's so Funny?	Oct. 2002
Gibrisch Spoken Here	Dec. 2002
Circling the Wagons	Jan. 2003
The Vocabulary of Democracy	Feb. 2003
Quoth the Maven	April 2003
Purloined Letters	June 2003
That Endless Refrain	Aug. 2003
The Gloomiest Trade	Oct. 2003
From Down Home to Decadence	Nov. 2003
Too Wretched for Words	Dec. 2003
When Euphemisms Die	Feb. 2004
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quantum Physics	April 2004
The Man Who Taught Americans to Laugh	June 2004
Fatal Language Errors	Aug. 2004
Hillbilly Hamlets	Oct. 2004
World's Most Irritating Phrases	Dec. 2004
The Best (or Worst) Newspaper Writing?	Feb. 2005
The Archeology of Words	April 2005
The Language of God	June 2005
New Clichés	Oct. 2005
Timeless Aphorisms	Dec. 2005
Wit's End	Feb. 2006
A Defense of Adjectives	May 2006
Guerilla Grammarians	July 2006
Serendipity on the Internet	Oct. 2006
No Luddite, He	Dec. 2006
The Race Is Off	Feb. 2007
Culture vs. Clutter	April 2007
The Selfish Reader	June 2007
Old School Prose	Aug. 2007
Dangerous Books for Boys	Oct. 2007
Disorderly Words	Dec. 2007
Mother Tongue	Mar. 2008
This Stupid Word	May 2008
The Look-At-Me Generation	July 2008

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