Over the last nine years — and more than 115 issues of The Vocabula Review — we have devoted ourselves to producing and publishing this journal, certainly the principal web destination for anyone interested in words and language. But it has come at a high cost. The income from our modest subscription fees is not nearly enough to cover the costs of maintaining and improving The Vocabula Review website. It's not enough to pay our writers; it's not enough to pay our editor.

Without your help, The Vocabula Review may have to cease publication before its ten-year anniversary in September 2009.

Few organizations, and even fewer websites it seems, do not ask for money. Clearly, we cannot contribute to all who would have us do so, but it also seems clear that each of us must decide, among all who would ask, which petitioners we should heed.

If you'd like to become a Vocabula sponsor and contribute $25, $50, $100, $250, or more, you will have our thanks and some assurance that The Vocabula Review will endure another day.

If you represent a business or corporation, a college or university, and you prize well-spoken, well-written English, please consider making your values known by sponsoring The Vocabula Review.

Donate to the English language; donate to literacy, honesty, and clarity; donate to The Vocabula Review.

Or mail a check, made payable to The Vocabula Review, to:

Though Vocabula is a private company, we will sell "shares in Vocabula" to interested parties. Each share costs $1500.00. For your investment in Vocabula, you have ready access to its editor and a say in editorial decisions and marketing strategies. You would, in effect, compose our editorial board.

For your $1500.00 investment in Vocabula, we will also give you a lifelong subscription to The Vocabula Review, and we will give, in your name, a yearlong Vocabula site license to the library or institution of your choice (itself a $1500 value).

You may buy as many shares as you like; the more you buy, the more influence you will have on Vocabula's editorial decisions. Buy enough shares, and we will invite you to be on our Board of Directors, thought by some to be a literary plum.

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