Articles

A

A Backhanded Pardon

VOL XXIV, No 3

A Balance of Trade William H. Dougherty

VOL XXI, No 2 [Autumn, 1994]

A Bicentennial Pair: George & Patsy Arthur J. Morgan New York

Vol III, No 1 [May 1976]

A Brief Guide to the Italian Letter-Writing Tradition Roberta Kedzierski

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

A Car by Any Other Name … Keith Hall

Vol XXXI, No 4

A Catalogue of Cats Alan Major

VOL XXII, No 2 [Autumn, 1995]

A Column on Columns David Galef

VOL XXVII, No 1

A Compound Subject Richard Lederer

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

A Dictionary of American Proverbs

VOL XX, No 3 [Winter 1994]

A Few Words (235 To Be Exact) About the 1980s Richard B. Elsberry

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

A Fourth Use of the Verb Rodomontade in the Eighteenth Century Michele Valerie Ronnick

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

A Glib Punner's Bright Scheme A. H. Block

Vol XXIX, No 1

A Grandfather Stories Glossary Josephus Perrick

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

A Harvest of Heteronyms Donald Drury

VOL IX, No 3 [Winter, 1983]

A Headful of Words Nigel J. Ross

XXVII, No. 4 [Autumn 2002]

A Hoagie By Any Other Name Dave Wilton

VOL XXVIII, No 3 [Autumn 2003]

A Hodd Hanthology A. Adrian Allen

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

A Man of Fire-new Words Richard Lederer

VOL XIV, No 4 [Spring, 1988]

A Memorable Agreement Bernard L. Witlieb

VOL IX, No 2 [Autumn, 1982]

A Menagerie of Words Don Sharp

VOL XVIII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

A Metalinguistic Inquiry into F Bruce D. Price

VOL V, No 1 [May, 1987]

A Missile-any of Shots by a Poor Marksman Robert A. Fowkes

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

A Name Defamed

VOL XXV, No 2

A Nasal Encounter Fairfax Stephenson

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

A Nocturnal View of the Lunar Landscape: Venturing and Adventuring in Adjectives Rob Schleifer

XXVII, No. 2

A Note and a Query Bruce B. Olive and Carter Revard

VOL V, No 1 [May, 1987]

A Note on the Origin of Tall Poppy and Tall Poppy Syndrome Michele Valerie Ronnick

VOL XXVI, No 3

A Partridge for Christmas Walter Hayes

VOL X, No 2 [Autumn, 1983]

A Place for Everything ...

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

A Play on Words Anna and Taffy Holland

VOL XII, No 1 [Summer, 1985]

A Plea for Plain Talk Douglas R. Woodworth

Vol III, No 3 [December 1976]

A Pooh-Poohey Virginia Howard

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

A Possible Origin of Flash Flood Ari Hoptman

VOL XXVI, No 4

A Proper Look at Verbs Nigel J. Ross

VOL XXII, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

A Pun Expunged

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

A Quick Fox Jumps over the Cwm Fjord-Bank Glyph Biz —Russell Slocum

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

A Quiz About Sexist Language Richard Lederer

VOL XI, No 1 [Summer, 1984]

A Reverse English Quiz

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

A Rose Could Be a Ruse or a Rouse Jay Ames

VOL VIII, No 3 [Autumn, 1981]

A Saga Janet Krueger

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

A Scientific Investigation Into a Linguistic Matter of Some Importance Marvin E. Mengeling

Vol XXXI, No 4

A Short Hike through Arroyo Lingo Larry Tritten

Vol XXIX, No 3

A Short History of Punctuation John Bateson

VOL X, No 2 [Autumn, 1983]

A Special Gift of Words Maurice Sagoff

VOL XI, No 2 [Autumn, 1984]

A Taxonomy of Epigrams Michel P. Richard

VOL XVI, No 2 [Autumn, 1989]

A Toast: To the Tautology Marc A. Bernstein

VOL XIX, No 1 [Summer, 1992]

A Tuesday Afternoon With Hunter Diack Juliette Shapiro

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

A Visit from Aunt Rose: Euphemisms (and Pejoratives) for Menstruation Jessy Randall

VOL XXV, No 1

A Visit to the Language Zoo Richard Lederer

VOL IX, No 2 [Autumn, 1982]

A Wisconsin Supreme Court Dictionary Jack Stark

VOL XVIII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

A Word About Word Processing—Reminiscences Laurence Urdang

VOL IX, No 3 [Spring, 1983]

A Word or Two in Spanglish C. J. Moore

Vol XXX, No 2

A Yankee Dime and Other Reginal Expressions Hazel Sample Guyol

VOL XXIII, No 2 [Summer, 1996]

ADDENDA Deborah Storms

Vol IV, No 4 [September 1977]

ADDENDA W.G. Waters

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

ADDENDA Howard G. Zettler

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

ADDENDA: More English Adjective-Nouns Ending in -ine and Relating to Animals David L. Gold

VOL XIV, No 3 [Winter, 1988]

ADDENDA: Names

Vol III, No 2 [September 1976]

ANTIPODEAN ENGLISH: Dharuk Words In English Bill Ramson

VOL XXIII, No 1 [Summer, 1996]

ANTIPODEAN ENGLISH: Famous Australian Etymologies Bill Ramson

VOL XXII, No 2 [Autumn, 1995]

ANTIPODEAN ENGLISH: From Woop Woop to Bullamakanka George W. Turner

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

ANTIPODEAN ENGLISH: More Famous Australian Etymologies Bill Ramson

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

ANTIPODEAN ENGLISH: Of Surf and Such Bill Ramson

VOL XXI, No 3 [Winter, 1995]

ANTIPODEAN ENGLISH: Probably, possibly, perhaps W.S. Ramson

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

ANTIPODEAN ENGLISH: Settlement by Sea Bill Ramson

VOL XXIII, No 3 [Winter, 1997]

ANTIPODEAN ENGLISH: Tassie Terms W.S. Ramson

VOL XXI, No 1 [Summer, 1994]

ANTIPODEAN ENGLISH: The ABC of Broadcasting Australian Bill Ramson

VOL XXII, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

ANTIPODEAN ENGLISH: The Dinkum Oil G.W. Turner

VOL VI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

AS THE WORD TURNS: Catching Some Zees Barry Baldwin

VOL XXVI, No 3

AS THE WORD TURNS: Latin Lovers Barry Baldwin

VOL XXVIII, No 3 [Autumn 2003]

AS THE WORD TURNS: Some Ado About Nothing Barry Baldwin

VOL XXVI, No 4

AS THE WORD TURNS: Where Do They Come From? Barry Baldwin

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

AUTHOR'S QUERY

VOL XXI, No 2 [Autumn, 1994]

Abusing the King's English Robert M. Sebastian

VOL XVIII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

Acery and Asery

VOL XIII, No 4 [Spring, 1986]

Acronym Soup: A Stirring Guide to Our Newest Word Form

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary: A Guide

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

Additional “Odd Couples” Elton F. Henley

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Affiant Saith Further Nought Frank Abate

Vol XXX, No 2

Again and Ageyn and Agane W.R. Edwards

VOL V, No 3 [Winter, 1978]

Agatha Christie's Works Are Not Legal Fictions Stephen E. Hirschberg

VOL XIV, No 4 [Spring, 1988]

Ah! Ah! Elle est bien bonne! (Ha ha, that's a good one!)

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

Ahless Havad

Vol III, No 2 [September 1976]

Akeries and Eaneries Robert A. Fowkes

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

Alchemical Calques or the Transmutation of Language Rob Schleifer

Vol XXIX, No 2

All About Me Compiled by Robert Stigger

Vol XXX, No 1

All Gone Pear-Shaped: Opportunities for Misunderstanding the Police Mike Seabrook

VOL XXII, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

All Present—and Unaccounted for Virginia M. Prichard

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

All The Presidents' Adjectives Christopher Devine

Vol XXXII, No 2 [Spring 2008]

All about All Steven Cushing

VOL XXIV, No 2

All in the Family Jerome Betts

VOL XXII, No 1 [Summer, 1995]

Alpha Privative = A-Negative Edward C. Echols

VOL XIV, No 3 [Winter, 1988]

American Slurvian Richard Lederer

VOL XIV, No 2 [Autumn, 1987]

Ameritalian Donald A. Sears

Vol I, No 4

An Alphabetaphile's Outrage: Wherein Caedmon's Ancestors Blunder And We Pay The Price Dennis Mills

VOL XXVI, No 2

An Appeal to Writers Everywhere Tony Ladds

XXVII, No. 4 [Autumn 2002]

An Architectonic of Verbs Charles M. Young

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

An Aye for an Aye Carl Wood

VOL XXII, No 2 [Autumn, 1995]

An Intolerant View of Intolerance Laurence Urdang

Vol I, No 3

And Oh, the Smell of Your Spile... Norman Ward

VOL XI, No 1 [Summer, 1984]

Animal Lamina Adrian Room

XXVII, No. 2

Animal-Like Adjectives Lynne Tieslau Jewell

Vol III, No 3 [December 1976]

Another Grammatical Game: The Foregone Conclusion Douglas Greenwood

VOL XVI, No 1 [Summer, 1989]

Answers

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

Answers

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

Answers

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

Answers

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Answers to A Glib Punner's Bright Scheme

Vol XXIX, No 1

Answers to A Nasal Encounter

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

Answers to Awesome Foursomes:

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

Answers to Verbal Analogies

VOL XXV, No 1

Answers to Verbal Analogies

VOL XXV, No 2

Answers to Verbal Analogies

VOL XXV, No 3

Antedate Dictionary Citations —David Shulman

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

Antedatings and Supplementary Material for OED from a Correspondent of Browne Willis (1712) John Considine

VOL XXV, No 2

Anti-Language David Mathew

VOL XXIII, No 2 [Summer, 1996]

Antipodean English W.S.Ramson

VOL XX, No 3 [Winter 1994]

Antipodean English: A Pet Avoision G.W. Turner

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

Antipodean English: Divided by a Common Tongue George W. Turner

VOL XIV, No 2 [Autumn, 1987]

Antipodean English: Give a Dog a Bad Name ... George W. Turner

VOL XIV, No 3 [Winter, 1988]

Antipodean English: Going Decimal George L. Turner

VOL XIV, No 1 [Summer, 1987]

Antipodean English: Harmless Drudgery G.W. Turner

VOL X, No 1

Antipodean English: In Praise of Creative Error George L. Turner

VOL XIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1986]

Antipodean English: Infinite Variety G. W. Turner

VOL VI, No 1 [Summer, 1979]

Antipodean English: More Colorful Language George W. Turner

VOL VIII, No 3 [Autumn, 1981]

Antipodean English: New Australian G. W. Turner

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

Antipodean English: Of Camels and Tamarillos George W. Turner

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

Antipodean English: Our Birthstain

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Antipodean English: Socko Names George W. Turner

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

Antipodean English: The Elusive 'Kangaroo' George W. Turner

VOL IX, No 3 [Spring, 1983]

Antipodean English: The Flight of the Kiwi George W. Turner

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

Antipodean English: Tok Bidjin G. W. Turner

VOL VIII, No 4 [Autumn, 1981]

Antipodean Newsletter: Can I have a baby? G.W. Turner

VOL XI, No 1 [Summer, 1984]

Antipodean Newsletter: The Coming of the Strangers George W. Turner

VOL XIV, No 4 [Spring, 1988]

Antipodean Newsletter: Water, Water, Nowhere George W. Turner

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Antipodean Newsletter: Where Words Run Widdershins G. W. Turner

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

Anyone for Gerunding? C J Moore

Vol XXXI, No 4

Anything But Pregnant: A Compendium of Colloquialisms Jessy Randall

XXVII, No. 2

Appositional Elegance: A Brief Exposition Alan C. Purves

VOL XVII, No 2 [Autumn 1990]

Arabic Loanwords Robert Devereux

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

Are Prepositions Necessary? John Horne Tooke and the Origins of Words Rosemarie Ostler

Vol XXXII, No 1

Around the World by Dictionary Stephen E. Hirschberg

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

As The Word Turns: Another Grose-Out Barry Baldwin

Vol XXIX, No 1

As The Word Turns: Kettell Kall Barry Baldwin

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

As The Word Turns: Some Goode Olde Englishe Dirte Barry Baldwin

XXVII, No. 2

As The Word Turns: Some High and Low Cs Barry Baldwin

VOL XXV, No 3

As the Word Turns Barry Baldwin

VOL XXV, No 1

As the Word Turns: Brief Lives, Brief Loves Barry Baldwin

Vol XXX, No 1

As the Word Turns: Jane's World Barry Baldwin

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

As the Word Turns: Lincs Lingo Barry Baldwin

Vol XXXI, No 2

As the Word Turns: Some Golden Oldies Barry Baldwin

Vol XXXI, No 3

As the Word Turns: X files Barry Baldwin

VOL XXVI, No 2

As the Word Turns: X files Barry Baldwin

VOL XXVI, No 2

As the Word Turns: Y, O Y Barry Baldwin

Vol XXIX, No 2

Assing Around Jessy Randall and Wendy Woloson

VOL XXIV, No 2

Aunt Minnie's Chicken Talk William Bancroft Mellor

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

Australia and the Environment: the First Fifty Years W.S. Ramson

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Author's Query

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

Avoiding Offense John Morris

VOL XXIV, No 4

Awesome Foursomes Gloria Rosenthal

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

B

B Is for Body Ralph H. Emerson

XXVII, No. 2

B-P Words Malcolm Wells

VOL V, No 3 [Winter, 1978]

BONA PALARE: the Language of Round the Horne Mat Coward

VOL XXIV, No 2

Baby-San's Lingo D. Gordon and R.L. Spear

VOL XXV, No 3

Backwords and Newances David Galef

VOL XVI, No 2 [Autumn, 1989]

Bacronymic Etymythologies Douglas G. Wilson

Vol XXIX, No 2

Bad Language and Big Bucks David Robinson

VOL XVII, No 4 [Spring 1991]

Baragouins and Penguins: The Celtic Connection P. Emlyn Stephenson

VOL X, No 2 [Autumn, 1983]

Barbarians: Babbling, Bearded, Bizarre Mary M. Tius

VOL XX, No 4 [Spring 1994]

Bartlett's Ain't Got It David Steinberg

VOL VI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Baseball, Chicago-Style Johnathan Caws-Elwitt

Vol XXXI, No 2

Bats David Galef

Vol XXX, No 3

Bats as Symbols Frank Holan

VOL XXIV, No 3

Beadlemania Jerome Betts

Vol XXXII, No 1

Bears and Lions Growl Robert Devereux

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

Before I Am Too Late By the present Richard G. Lillard

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Bespeaking a Muse or What? Paul Blackford

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

Between the Parentheses: A Pron Chick Reports from the Front Lines Rima McKinzey

VOL XXIV, No 4

Beyond Blue Chips, Bulls and Bears Nigel J. Ross

VOL XX, No 3 [Winter 1994]

Bilingualism, or How to Be Tongue-tied in Two Languages Frank J. Jones

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

Binomials and Trinomials Paul M. Lloyd

Vol I, No 2

Biotechnologos: Words of the Life Business Michael J. Corey

Vol XXXI, No 4

Bird Talk David Rickerby

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Bits and Pieces David Galef

Vol XXXII, No 1

Bleep That Slur! Andrew E. Beresky

Vol IV, No 4 [September 1977]

Blends, Blands, and Blunds Robert A. Fowkes

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Blessed Be The Words That Bind Rebecca Christian

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

Blog This Steve Lawson

VOL XXVIII, No 3 [Autumn 2003]

Blurts

Vol XXX, No 1

Body English Jay Siwek

VOL VI, No 1 [Summer, 1979]

Bogus E-mail Subject Lines Jim Veihdeffer

VOL XXVI, No 4

Book Production Jargon Jaqueline Cangro

Vol XXXI, No 4

Book Words: Words Describing Paper and Printing Carol-June Cassidy and Paul Heacock

VOL XXVI, No 4

Borrowing and Biases in German and English Sterling Eisiminger

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

Borrowings Mary M. Tius

VOL XXI, No 2 [Autumn, 1994]

Bottom, Thou Art Translated Adrian Room

VOL XXV, No 2

Brahman or brahman? Pratapaditya Pal

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1989]

Brain Injury and Language Catherine P. Businelle

Vol XXX, No 2

Brand New Eponyms Richard Lederer

VOL XII, No 1 [Summer, 1985]

Breaking the Law of Averages Warren Tupper Way

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

Bringing Descriptive Linguistics Into Everyday Conversation: A Cautionary Tale Allison Burkette

Vol XXXI, No 2

British Football Chants Pete May

VOL XXV, No 1

Broadway Musicals—Terms and Traditions Gloria Rosenthal

VOL XXV, No 2

Bumps, Grinds and Other Lewd (1389) Gestures John H. Felts

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

Bureaucratic Possessives Elbridge Colby

Vol II, No 1 [May 1975]

By Their Notes Ye Shall Know Them: A Look at Onomatopoeic Ornithonymy Adrian Room

VOL XXIII, No 3 [Winter, 1997]

By Way of Middlebrow English Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

Vol XXXII, No 2 [Spring 2008]

Byte Bonding, Bit-bangers, and BLOBS Valerie Collins

VOL XXIV, No 2

“--but this Thesaurus!” I

Vol III, No 2 [September 1976]

“Badges” Redux Daniel Temianka

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

“by Golley, J.W.” John E. Guilday

VOL IX, No 2 [Autumn, 1982]

C

CLASSICAL BLATHER Nick Humez

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

CLASSICAL BLATHER: (S)wordplay Nick Humez

Vol XXX, No 3

CLASSICAL BLATHER: -ists, -ites, and other ends Nick Humez

VOL XXVI, No 2

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Amongst Our Weaponry Nick Humez

Vol XXIX, No 1

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Baddabing, Baddabang Nick Humez

VOL XXVI, No 4

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Certain Somebodies Nick Humez

VOL XXVII, No 1

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Chances Are Nick Humez

VOL XXV, No 1

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Death's Masks Nick Humez

Vol XXX, No 1

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Eponymous Ailments Nick Humez

VOL XXVI, No 3

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Getting Out the Vote Nick Humez

VOL XXV, No 3

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Hellenic Damnation and Other Afterlives Nick Humez

VOL XXVIII, No 1

CLASSICAL BLATHER: It's About Time Nick Humez

VOL XXV, No 2

CLASSICAL BLATHER: It's Only Music, Don't Be Scherzo Nick Humez

VOL XXVIII, No 3 [Autumn 2003]

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Money Talk(s) Nick Humez

VOL XXIV, No 4

CLASSICAL BLATHER: On Blue Moons, and Others Nick Humez

VOL XXIV, No 2

CLASSICAL BLATHER: On the -go Nick Humez

Vol XXXI, No 1

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Pants on Fire Nick Humez

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Pound Hammers (and Toe Trucks) Nick Humez

Vol XXXI, No 3

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Quaint Crimes, Archaic Punishments Nick Humez

XXVII, No. 4 [Autumn 2002]

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Sententiæ Antiquæ Nick Humez

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Silly Songs Nick Humez

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Speak of the Devil! Nick Humez

Vol XXXII, No 1

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Stuff and Nonsense Nick Humez

Vol XXIX, No 3

CLASSICAL BLATHER: The Wee Folk Nick Humez

Vol XXXI, No 4

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Trickster Treats Nick Humez

Vol XXX, No 4

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Weird Tools, Improbable Jobs Nick Humez

XXVII, No. 2

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Whatsisnames and Thingamajigs Nick Humez

Vol XXIX, No 2

CLASSICAL BLATHER: Words of Power Nick Humez

Vol XXX, No 2

CORRIGENDA

VOL XI, No 1 [Summer, 1984]

CORRIGENDA

VOL XI, No 2 [Autumn, 1984]

CORRIGENDA

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

CORRIGENDA

VOL XV, No 2 [Aytumn, 1984]

CORRIGENDA

VOL XXI, No 3 [Winter, 1995]

CORRIGENDA

VOL XXII, No 2 [Autumn, 1995]

CORRIGENDA

VOL XXIV, No 2

CORRIGENDA

VOL XXV, No 1

CORRIGENDA

VOL XXV, No 3

CORRIGENDA

VOL XXVI, No 3

CORRIGENDA O Judas Priest!

XXVII, No. 2

CORRIGENDA

Vol XXX, No 3

CORRIGENDA

Vol XXX, No 3

CORRIGENDA

Vol IV, No 4 [September 1977]

CORRIGENDA D.L. Emblen

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

CORRIGENDA

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

CORRIGENDUM

VOL XIV, No 4 [Spring, 1988]

CORRIGENDUM

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

Can We Write This Wrong? A. S. Flaumenhaft Lawrence

Vol III, No 1 [May 1976]

Canting Heraldry D. H. B. Chesshyre

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

Casanova's English Simon Nicholls

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

Caustic Causatives and Lowest Common Denominatives Robert A. Fowkes

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

Caveat Viator David L. Miles

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Charmed and Other Quarks August A. Imholtz

Vol III, No 3 [December 1976]

Chaucer's Fish Leonard Cochran

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

Checking In/Checking Out: Hotel Slang of the 1950s Louis Phillips

Vol XXX, No 3

Checking Your References Tom Bentley

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

Cheers! Martin Gani

Vol XXIX, No 3

Chin-banging: Tough English Words in Japanese Teen Slang P. Constantine

VOL XXI, No 3 [Winter, 1995]

Chunnel Vision Gary Egan

VOL XXII, No 1 [Summer, 1995]

Cinq Centmille Diables! W'at Dat Is? Dat's Cajun, I Ga-ron-tee! Mary Stewart Craig

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Classic Wit Burling Lowrey

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

Classical Music Terms Unravelled (Or UnRavel-ed) Alice McVeigh

Vol XXXI, No 2

Classical Swearing: A Vade-Mecum Barry Baldwin

VOL XXV, No 2

Clerihew

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

Clicks Are Very Common John F. Gummere

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

Clue Me in to Anagrams John R. Harris

VOL XIV, No 2 [Autumn, 1987]

Colonial American English—Supplement Richard M. Lederer

VOL XVIII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

Colorful Language Sterling Eisiminger

VOL VI, No 1 [Summer, 1979]

Colourful Language Martin Gani

XXVII, No. 2

Comparatively Speaking Shelley Saltzman

VOL XI, No 2 [Autumn, 1984]

Conan the Grammarian Richard Lederer

Vol XXX, No 3

Concealed Iranians William Cole

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Concerning Aspersions Russell DaSilva

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

Confessions of a Pert Aleck Marilyn Knapp Litt

VOL XXVI, No 3

Confessions of a Verbivore Richard Lederer

Vol XXX, No 1

Confusion Compounded J. D. Sadler

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

Conjugal Oddities Axel Hornos

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

Copper Beeches Padraic Colum

VOL V, No 3 [Winter, 1978]

Crank This Sucker Up! David Minugh

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Cross-talk David Galef

VOL XVIII, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Crossing William H. Dougherty

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

Cuckoo for Crack Mark Peters

Vol XXXI, No 1

Cynical Definitions and Funny Phrasebooks John Kahn

VOL XX, No 3 [Winter 1994]

D

(Dia)critic's Corner Marc A. Schindler

VOL XXIII, No 1 [Summer, 1996]

DACTYLOGIA

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

DACTYLOLOGIA

VOL XXIV, No 2

DACTYLOLOGIA

VOL XXV, No 1

DANGER! Letter Loose! Alma Denny

VOL XI, No 2 [Autumn, 1984]

DARE—More Than Halfway There Joan Houston Hall

VOL XXIII, No 4 [Autumn 1998]

Darn, Durn, Down, Doon, Damn

Vol I, No 1

Dash It All Ethel Grodzins Romm

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

Dash It! Annabel Wynne

Vol XXXI, No 2

Dating Customs Robert Schoenfeld

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

Deadline Dale Roberts

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

Dear Editor

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

Deciphering The Four-Letter Word in a Medieval Manuscript's Satire on Friars Carter Revard

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

Defile Your Records!

VOL V, No 3 [Winter, 1978]

Degrees of Right and Wrong Laurence Urdang

VOL IX, No 3 [Spring, 1983]

Denaturized Profanity in English Ralph H. Emerson

VOL XXVI, No 2

Denaturized Profanity in English Ralph H. Emerson

VOL XXVI, No 2

Deranged Diction Mary M. Tius

VOL XXIII, No 3 [Winter, 1997]

Derogatory Epithets for Foreigners in Chinese Weiju Zhu

VOL XX, No 1 [Summer 1991]

Developing Dictionaries Daniel Balado-Lopez

VOL XX, No 1 [Summer 1991]

Diagnosis: Chronic Progressive Abstrusity Stephen E. Hirschberg

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Dickey Ticker Alex Berlyne

VOL XIX, No 4 [Spring, 1993]

Diction Slips David Galef

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

Dictionaries for Advanced Learners and Users of Foreign Languages Frank Knowles

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Dictionaries of Hard Words Come Easy

Vol I, No 1

Dictionary of Military Abbreviations

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

Diplophrasis Philip E. Hager

Vol IV, No 4 [September 1977]

Dirty Words

Vol XXX, No 4

Do Conferees Photograph Well? Roger W. Wescott

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

Do Mistake—Learn Better Joseph Hynes

VOL XV, No 1 [Summer, 1988]

Dogspeak, So to Speak Janice Arenofsky

Vol XXXI, No 3

Don't Call Me an “Adult!” — I'm a Mature Human Being Kay Haugaard

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

Don't Get Your Titles In A Twist! Adrian Room

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

Don't Kid the Goldfish: A Linguistic Portrait of My Mother Kay Haugaard

Vol XXX, No 3

Double Reverse Spoonerisms

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Double Reverse Spoonerisms: Answers

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Double Trouble Robert A. Fowkes

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Down to Earth in a Low Country Harry Cohen

VOL X, No 2 [Autumn, 1983]

Drawlery Orin Hargraves

Vol XXXI, No 2

Drowned in Translation Jerome Betts

Vol XXXI, No 2

Dude, Katie! Your Dress is So Cute: Why Dude Became an Exclamation Muffy Siegel

Vol XXX, No 4

Duende: Gypsy Soul and Something More George Bria

VOL XV, No 1 [Summer, 1988]

E

(ECCO): Eighteenth Century Collections Online: The Words And Images Of History Fred R. Shapiro

Vol XXIX, No 3

ENGLISH ENGLISH Philip Howard

VOL XI, No 1 [Summer, 1984]

ENIAC, HAL, and Deep Thought: Computer Names Jessy Randall

Vol XXXI, No 1

ERRATA/CORRIGENDA

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

EUREKA: Droste, Dutch Girl, et al.

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

EUREKA: Memorandum

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

EUREKA: Ngaio Marsh

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

EUREKA: Nine Tailors

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

EUREKA: The Third Man

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

EX CATHEDRA

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

EX CATHEDRA

VOL XXVI, No 2

EX CATHEDRA

VOL XXVI, No 4

EX CATHEDRA

VOL XXVIII, No 3 [Autumn 2003]

EX CATHEDRA

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

EX CATHEDRA

Vol XXIX, No 1

EX CATHEDRA

Vol XXIX, No 2

EX CATHEDRA

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

EX CATHEDRA

Vol XXX, No 1

EX CATHEDRA

Vol XXX, No 3

EX CATHEDRA

Vol III, No 1 [May 1976]

EX CATHEDRA

Vol III, No 3 [December 1976]

EX CATHEDRA

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

EX CATHEDRA: 1984 in 1975?

Vol I, No 4

EX CATHEDRA: Apostrophes

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

EX CATHEDRA: Ave!

VOL XXIII, No 4 [Autumn 1998]

EX CATHEDRA: Favorite Word Contest Results

VOL XXVII, No 1

EX CATHEDRA: For That Which We Have Received

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

EX CATHEDRA: Intolerable Intolerance, Redux

VOL XXIV, No 3

EX CATHEDRA: The Diamond Jubilee Issue

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

EX CATHEDRA: The New Contest

XXVII, No. 2

EX CATHEDRA: They Don't Write English Like They Used To

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

EX CATHEDRA: Vale!

VOL XXIII, No 3 [Winter, 1997]

EX CATHEDRA=

VOL XXVI, No 2

Easy Does It? Adrian Room

VOL XIX, No 2 [Autumn, 1992]

Eccentricity in English Lexicography Elmer Suderman

VOL XII, No 1 [Summer, 1985]

Edible Endearments Joan Sill Cummins

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

Eighteenth Century Collections Online: The Words and Images of History Fred R. Shapiro

Vol XXIX, No 1

Elementary, My Dear Mendeleev Marc A. Schindler

VOL XXII, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

Elements of Semantic Change R. B. Lees

Vol I, No 3

Ellipsis ... Faulty and Otherwise G. A. Cevasco Associate Professor of English

Vol III, No 1 [May 1976]

Email and Good Writing David Isaacson

Vol XXIX, No 3

Emails to an Etymologist Michael Quinion

Vol XXX, No 1

Endearment Elucidation, or Love By Any Other Name Alan Major

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

English Arrivals in Hungary Elizabeth Bencze

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

English As She Is Minced Naftali Wertheim

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

English English Philip Howard

VOL X, No 1

English English Philip Howard

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

English English Philip Howard

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

English English by Philip Howard Philip Howard

VOL X, No 2 [Autumn, 1983]

English English: Frenglish Philip Howard

VOL XII, No 1 [Summer, 1985]

English English: Philately Philip Howard

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

English English: Scab by Philip Howard

VOL XIII, No 4 [Spring, 1986]

English English: Take Care Philip Howard

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

English Is A Crazy Language Richard Lederer

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1989]

English Know-how, No Problem Bill Bryson

VOL XVII, No 4 [Spring 1991]

English Loanwords in Chinese Waiju Zhu

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

English Place Names Susan Elkin

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

English Words in Italian: Florence, Italy A Cast of Thousands

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

English as she is spoke: The new guide of the conversation in Portuguese and English in two parts, by Pedro Caroline (Jose da Fonseca) Michael Gorman

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

English in Dutch Harry Cohen

VOL VI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

English in Italy Martin Gani

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

English on the Serbian Front Peter Constantine

VOL XXII, No 1 [Summer, 1995]

English: The Lagoon of Nations Richard Lederer

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

Epenthetical Follow-up Jack Luzzatto

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

Epenthetically Speaking Jack Luzzatto

VOL VI, No 1 [Summer, 1979]

Epitaph for Gertrude Stein

Vol XXXI, No 3

Epithets: the Great, the Good, the Golden-tongued and the Terrible Susan Elkin

XXVII, No. 2

Eponymous Anonymous Diane Chapman

VOL IX, No 2 [Autumn, 1982]

Esrever Hsilgne Robert A. Fowkes New York University

Vol III, No 2 [September 1976]

Et tu, Brutus, old chap! R. Millar

VOL XXII, No 1 [Summer, 1995]

Ethnic Slurs and the Avoidance Thereof William H. Dougherty

VOL XVII, No 4 [Spring 1991]

Etymological Overlap: Analogous Derivatives in English Bryan A. Garner

VOL X, No 2 [Autumn, 1983]

Etymology as Educated Guess Craig M. Carver

VOL XIX, No 1 [Summer, 1992]

Everything You Always Wanted To Know about Pig Latin But Were Afraid To Ask Melanie Falcon

VOL XXVIII, No 1

Evolution: Just a Theory? Steven Cushing

VOL XXV, No 2

Exceptions to the Rule Gary S. Felton

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

Excerpts from the Baylor College Linguistics Scavenger Hunt M. Lynne Murphy

VOL XXV, No 1

Explication de cricket Norman W. Schur

Vol IV, No 3 [December 1977]

Exploring the Lexicon with Natives of North America August Rubrecht (rubreca@uwec.edu)

VOL XXIII, No 4 [Autumn 1998]

Expressions for Sexual Harassment: a Semantic Hole Sol Saporta

VOL XXI, No 3 [Winter, 1995]

Eyebrows and Lowbrows Robert A. Fowkes

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

F

F U Cn Rd Ths ... David Galef

VOL XXII, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

Fallin' In with the Great-Aunts Rebecca Christian

VOL VI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Falls the Shadow John Ellison Kahn

VOL XXII, No 2 [Autumn, 1995]

Falsest of Friends Fraser Sutherland

Vol XXX, No 2

Family Words in English 1 Allen Walker Read

Vol I, No 4

Famous Last Words Paul Bayliss

VOL XXVIII, No 3 [Autumn 2003]

Fan Words Marcelo Rinesi

Vol XXX, No 2

Fancy a Viking, Sooty? Steve Powell

VOL XXVII, No 1

Fanguage Greg Costikyan

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

Fascinating Toponymics—Geographical Names and the Stories They Tell Don Nilsen

VOL XVI, No 1 [Summer, 1989]

Favorite Grammatical Game: Puzzling Pronouns Douglas Greenwood

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Favorite Grammatical Games: Legerdemain in Two Senses and False Scents Douglas Greenwood

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1989]

Feminine Goldfish and Other Hybrids William H. Dougherty

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

Fighting the Contras David Galef

Vol XXIX, No 1

First Person Singular

VOL XXVI, No 4

Five Legislations

VOL XXV, No 3

Fo Er Si Guo Er and The Cross-Eyed Bear (or: OfOronyms and Other Literary Trompes l'Oeil/Oreille) William Brashear

VOL XXIII, No 2 [Summer, 1996]

Folk Etymology on Campus Richard Veit

VOL XIII, No 4 [Spring, 1986]

Foreign Correspondents William H. Dougherty

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1989]

Found in VERBATIM Boris Randolph

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

Found in Verbatim-Answers

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

Fourteenth Century Orthography

Vol XXX, No 3

Frailty, Thy Name Is Bevilacqua! Leslie Brunetta

VOL XIX, No 2 [Autumn, 1992]

Français ou plutôt à la française John Alvey

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

Frederick's Formal Family Dorena Marshall

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

French Leave William H. Dougherty

VOL XVII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

French Lessons in Lallans Donald MacIntosh

VOL XXII, No 2 [Autumn, 1995]

Freud and the Gentiles John Edwards

VOL VIII, No 3 [Autumn, 1981]

Fringe Benefits W. Dark Hendley

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

From A Dictionary of Interesting Collisions Gary Egan

VOL XXIV, No 3

From A to Zygoste for Yexing Readers Louis Phillips

VOL XI, No 2 [Autumn, 1984]

From China to Peru: An Oriental Odyssey Adrian Room

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

From Josephus's Jewish War to the American Civil War: Charles Francis Adams, Jr.'s “Dead Sea Apple” Michele Valerie Ronnick

VOL XXV, No 1

From Ragusa to Lombard Street Martin Bennett

VOL XXV, No 1

From Za-za to San-san: The Climate of Japanese Onomatopoeia David Galef

VOL XI, No 1 [Summer, 1984]

Front Back-axle Alex Berlyne

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Funnin' Games

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

Future Difficulties Sharon Ingleson

VOL XX, No 1 [Summer 1991]

Future Precedents and Nontoxic Poisons Paul Duchon

VOL XIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1986]

G

Galling Gallicisms of Quebec English Howard Richler

VOL XXIII, No 1 [Summer, 1996]

Gaming and/or Gambling: You pays your money... Thomas L. Clark

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

George Orwell, Meet Regis Fred R. Shapiro

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

Getting Bowzered in Early America Rosemarie Ostler

Vol XXX, No 4

Getting Hitched or Shacking up and Other Domestic Arrangements Devorah Stone

VOL XXVIII, No 1

Giving Up the Ghost Mabel C. Donnelly University of Connecticut

Vol III, No 1 [May 1976]

Glaswegians and Liverpudlians Robert A. Fowkes

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

Glitter Moth

Vol XXXI, No 2

Go to the Dictionary, Thou Sluggard Nicholas G. Demy

VOL XIV, No 1 [Summer, 1987]

God-Damns Barry Baldwin

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

Going But Not Quite Gone Susan Elkin

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

Grammar: The Terms Betray the Bias Donald A. Sears California State University

Vol III, No 2 [September 1976]

Graphic Account

VOL XXIV, No 2

Graphonics No. 1 Axel Hornos

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

Graphonics No. 2 Axel Hornos

VOL VIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1981]

Grass Roots A.S. Flaumenhaft Lawrence

Vol III, No 1 [May 1976]

Greguerías: Squeals/Pipsqueaks? The Work of Ramón Gómez de la Serna Walter Redfern

VOL XXVIII, No 3 [Autumn 2003]

Gullah: A Historical Note and Quiz Sterling Eisiminger Clemson University

Vol III, No 2 [September 1976]

Gunning for the English Language Richard Lederer

VOL XV, No 1 [Summer, 1988]

“ Good Grief, Maude! It's an Oxymoron! ” Timothy D. Hayes

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

H

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

VOL XXIV, No 3

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

VOL XXIV, No 4

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

VOL XXV, No 1

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

VOL XXV, No 2

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

VOL XXV, No 3

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

VOL XXVI, No 2

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

VOL XXVI, No 3

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

VOL XXVI, No 4

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

VOL XXVII, No 1

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

XXVII, No. 2

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

XXVII, No. 4 [Autumn 2002]

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

VOL XXVIII, No 1

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

VOL XXVIII, No 3 [Autumn 2003]

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

Vol XXIX, No 2

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

Vol XXIX, No 3

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

Vol XXX, No 1

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

Vol XXX, No 2

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

Vol XXX, No 3

HORRIBILE DICTU Matt Coward

Vol XXX, No 4

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

Vol XXXI, No 2

HORRIBILE DICTU Mat Coward

Vol XXXII, No 1

HORRIBILE DICTU* in mind, so bold and precise is its juxtaposition of contradictory ideas. In a recruitment leaflet for a pressure group, a supporter is quoted as saying: “Friends of the Earth are doing things I can believe in—incredible things.”

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

HORRIBLE DICTU Mat Coward

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

HORRIBLE DICTU Mat Coward

Vol XXIX, No 1

HOW to HUG Edwin Rosenberg

Vol XXX, No 3

Ha'penny Hurls and Chittering Bites: Talking Glaswegian June Sawers

Vol XXXII, No 1

Hand-me-downs Mary M. Tius

VOL XX, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Hanky-Panky, Hugger-Mugger, and Other Reduplicative Rhyming Compounds Amy Shuffelton

Vol XXXII, No 1

HarpWeek: Full-Text Searching of History Fred R. Shapiro

VOL XXVI, No 4

Have Your Salt and Eat It, Too Steve Kleinedler

VOL XXV, No 1

Hawaij in the Washing Machine N.C. Nahmound

VOL XIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1986]

Hazlitt on Wit

VOL XXVI, No 2

Hazlitt on Wit

VOL XXVI, No 2

Hear Finish Before (Pause) You? Ruth Brown

Vol III, No 3 [December 1976]

Hearing is in the Ear of the Listener Howard Richler

VOL XXIV, No 2

Hell Is All Around Jerome Betts

VOL XXVI, No 2

Hell Is All Around Jerome Betts

VOL XXVI, No 2

Hidden Compounds Don Sharp

VOL XV, No 2 [Aytumn, 1984]

High-Scoring Scrabble: Strings Seeking Definition Dan Pratt

Vol XXX, No 2

Hindi Filmi English Is Coming! Jag Mohan

VOL V, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Hocus Pocus William Brashear

VOL XIX, No 1 [Summer, 1992]

Hogamous, Higamous! Tony Percy

Vol XXIX, No 3

Holy Crapola! Mark Peters

Vol XXIX, No 2

Holy Water, Jeans, and Trade Unionists Laurence Urdang

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

Homonymous Antonyms

Vol I, No 4

Horse Words in a Motor Age Ralph H. Emerson

VOL XXII, No 1 [Summer, 1995]

Horse's Mouth Ken Snyder

Vol XXXII, No 2 [Spring 2008]

Horsing Around with the English Language Richard Lederer

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

Hot Air

Vol XXXI, No 2

How Big Is Your Dictionary? Robert Ilson

VOL XV, No 2 [Aytumn, 1984]

How D.A.R.E. You?: Katie Bar the Door Frederic B. Cassidy

VOL XIX, No 2 [Autumn, 1992]

How DARE You? Part 2

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

How Do You DARE? The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE), a continuous project of the American Dialect Society for many years

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

How Manieth? O. Abootty

VOL XXI, No 2 [Autumn, 1994]

How Off-track Betting Endangers Our Mother Tongue: Draining Color from the Horseplayer's Gift of Gab Francis J. Walsh

VOL V, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

How Wise is Proverbial Wisdom? Richard Lederer

VOL XXVI, No 4

How to Agglutinate Robert Devereux

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

How to Gain Proverbial Wisdom, or It Takes One to Know One David Galef

VOL XIX, No 4 [Spring, 1993]

How to Keep Dictionaries out of the Public Schools Edward B. Jenkinson

VOL V, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

How to Tawk Like a New Yawker Charles Harrington Elster

Vol XXX, No 1

How to Turn a Baseball Phrase Jack Luzzatto

Vol IV, No 4 [September 1977]

How's That Again? J. D. Sadler

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

Humor Caribbean Style Jeannette Allsopp

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Humpty Dumpty and the Sluggish Slut (or, Subjective Onomatopoeia) D.S. Bland

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

Humpty Dumpty's World Francis Griffith

Vol IV, No 4 [September 1977]

Hunting the Wayzgoose Dorothy E. Zemach

Vol XXX, No 3

Hwat, Hwere, Hwen, Hwich, ... and Hwy Henry M. Truby

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

I

I Didn't Catch Your Name Robert M. Rennick

Vol XXIX, No 2

I May Already Be A Wiener Gary Wiener

VOL XXIV, No 3

I before E? Pat Sheil

VOL XXVIII, No 1

I, Madam? I'm Adam (and other inconsequential verbal trivia) Sydney Abbey

VOL XIII, No 4 [Spring, 1986]

IN MEMORIAM

VOL XXIV, No 3

IN MEMORIAM

VOL XXVIII, No 1

Ici On Parle Anglais? Johanna Garfield

VOL XIV, No 3 [Winter, 1988]

Identity and Language in the SM Scene M. A. Buchanan

VOL XXIV, No 3

If Foul Is Fair, What Next? A.H. Block

Vol XXXI, No 2

If It Isn't In Writing... Geoffrey Bocca

VOL V, No 1 [May, 1987]

Illicit Threesomes Elaine Von Bruns

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

Images, Ornithology, and Jargon in the Defense Establishment: Some Reflections on a Refractory Subject Amrom H. Katz

VOL XIII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

In Chaucer's Time... The Liberating Joy of Do-It-Yourself Etymologies Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

Vol XXX, No 3

In Honor of the Occasion Clifton Brock

VOL XI, No 2 [Autumn, 1984]

In Praise of Irregularity Elisabeth Larsh Young

VOL XII, No 1 [Summer, 1985]

In Praise of St. Jerome Virginia Howard

VOL XIV, No 1 [Summer, 1987]

In the Name of Revolution William H. Dougherty

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

In the Name of the Pope Arthur J. Morgan

VOL XII, No 1 [Summer, 1985]

Indian File Norman Ward

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

Indian Words in English: Resident Aliens and Naturalized Citizens Peter Heehs

VOL XIV, No 4 [Spring, 1988]

Inscrutable Chinese Puzzle: Dialects or Languages? Charles P. Trumbull

VOL XII, No 1 [Summer, 1985]

Inside the Académie Thora van Male

Vol XXIX, No 1

Instant Welsh Michel Vercambre

VOL XVII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

Insulting Nicknames Give Journalists Something to Be Proud of Charles Stough

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

Investigating the Racqueteers Burling Lowrey

VOL XIX, No 1 [Summer, 1992]

Ipsissimum Verbum Richard C. Casey

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

Irish Bulls in Sundry China Shops Robert A. Fowkes

Vol II, No 1 [May 1975]

Irish Bulls—Second Series Robert A. Fowkes

Vol III, No 3 [December 1976]

Iron Language Maxey Brooke

VOL XIII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

Is Is Is Norman R. Shapiro

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

Is It [mIS] or [mIZ]? Dennis E. Baron

VOL XI, No 2 [Autumn, 1984]

Is Latin Briefer Than English Frederick C. Dyer

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

Is There an Information Professional In the House? Library Jargon in a Changing Profession Rachel Singer Gordon

Vol XXXI, No 3

It Figures Rosalind Woolner

VOL XXIII, No 1 [Summer, 1996]

It's All Double Janglish To Me! Martin Nuttall

VOL XXIV, No 3

Iterative Redundancies

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Iterative Redundancies-Answers

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

“Indri! Indri!” Kenneth E. Hall

VOL V, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

“Into Noah's Ark” Edgar Humphreys

VOL XIII, No 4 [Spring, 1986]

“Inward Seethings”: On Euphemism Jeff Miller

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

“I” before “E,” except... Richard Lederer

VOL XIV, No 1 [Summer, 1987]

J

698 Japanese Loanwords in English Garland Cannon

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

Jade for the Jaded Mary M. Tius

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

Jam Pass Die Donald MacIntosh

VOL XXII, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

Japanese English David Galef

VOL VIII, No 3 [Autumn, 1981]

Japanese Pop Group Nomenclature Paul Blackford

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

Jingo Lingo Harry Cohen

VOL XVI, No 4 [Spring, 1990]

John Le Carré's Spy Jargon: An Introduction and Lexicon Victor Lasseter

VOL VIII, No 4 [Autumn, 1981]

Join Me For a Spell Bob Swift

VOL XIX, No 1 [Summer, 1992]

Jonson and the Talmudists—Notes on the History of a Word J.H. Neumann

VOL V, No 3 [Winter, 1978]

Journo's Boffo Lingo: The Slang of Daily Variety David Wilton

Vol XXX, No 1

Jumpers and Rounders and Tops, Oh My Allison Whitehead

XXVII, No. 4 [Autumn 2002]

Juncture: Where It Sat Robert A. Fowkes

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

K

KILomoter or kiLOMeter? John R. Sinnema

Vol IV, No 3 [December 1977]

“Knowing the Fervor with Which You Speak...” Robert R. Rasmussen

VOL XVI, No 1 [Summer, 1989]

L

L

Vol XXIX, No 3

L33t-sp34k Erin McKean

VOL XXVII, No 1

LIGHT REFRACTIONS Thomas H. Middleton

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

LIGHT REFRACTIONS Thomas H. Middleton

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

LUDUS

Vol XXX, No 1

Lame Words

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

Landmarks in Arabic N. C. Nahmoud

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

Language As a Source of Conflict Geoffrey Kingscott

VOL XIV, No 4 [Spring, 1988]

Language Crimes: The Case of the Contending Relatives Richard L. Faust

VOL X, No 2 [Autumn, 1983]

Language Crimes: The Case of the Count's Companion Richard L. Faust

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

Language Crimes: The Case of the Missing Vocabulary Richard L. Faust

VOL XI, No 1 [Summer, 1984]

Language Crimes: The Case of the Purloined Negatives Richard L. Faust

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

Language Etiquette Sterling Eisiminger

VOL X, No 1

Language Felonies Natalia Cherjovsky

Vol XXX, No 3

Language at Bay Richard L. Champlin

VOL XXI, No 3 [Winter, 1995]

Lapsed Language of Appalachia John H. Felts

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

Lapsus Linguae

Vol XXX, No 3

Laws Gary S. Felton

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

Learn to Spike Lunars Robert Archibald Ford

VOL XVIII, No 4 [Spring 1991]

Learned Length and Thund'ring Sound: A Word-Lover's Panegyric Bryan A. Garner

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

Learning Modern Turkish Kevin Revolinski

Vol XXXII, No 1

Lest We Forget Stephen E. Hirschberg

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

Let There Be Light Larry Tritten

VOL XXVIII, No 3 [Autumn 2003]

Let Us Pick Your Brains Louis Phillips

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

Letters Can Be Words Kathryn Wilkens

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

Lexical Property Rights: Trademarks in American Dictionaries Michael Adams

Vol XXX, No 4

Lexicographic Quirks and Whimsy John Kahn

VOL XIX, No 2 [Autumn, 1992]

Lexicography in the Scottish Highlands and Islands Cannibalism, Caves, and Amulets: Philip Riley

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Light Refractions Thomas H. Middleton

VOL X, No 1

Light Refractions Thomas H. Middleton

VOL XI, No 2 [Autumn, 1984]

Light Refractions Thomas H. Middleton

VOL IX, No 3 [Winter, 1983]

Light Refractions: Puzzling and Processing Thomas H. Middleton

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

Limerick

VOL XXVI, No 3

Linguistic Larceny: It's Ausgezeichnet Michael J. Corey

Vol XXXI, No 1

Linguistics Scavenger Hunt Answers

VOL XXV, No 1

Lip Control Al Stevens

VOL XXVI, No 4

Lipograms: The Presence of Absence Susan Elkin

Vol XXIX, No 2

Lite/Light Barbara Hunt Lazerson

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1989]

Literally,... Richard W. Bailey

VOL XX, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Little Error Spells Big Mistake

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

Little Error—Answers

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

Little Waterloos on Europe's Language Frontiers Stanley Mason

VOL XVII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

Living with Fossilized Ears Alan Fisk

VOL XXI, No 2 [Autumn, 1994]

Lost Charisma Marc A. Bernstein

VOL XVIII, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Lost Metaphors of Land and Sea Richard Lederer

VOL XI, No 2 [Autumn, 1984]

Lost Tropes David Galef

VOL XII, No 1 [Summer, 1985]

Lost and Foundering (Eheu, Jane Ace! May She RIP) Mary M. Tius

VOL XXIII, No 4 [Autumn 1998]

Louisiana's German Cajuns, or, From Kissinger to Quisingre M. M. Kreeger

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

“Latter-day” English Marc A. Schindler

VOL XXIII, No 2 [Summer, 1996]

M

(Mis)interpretation? Allison Whitehead

VOL XXVI, No 4

MISCELLANEA: “Year of Languages” Radio Series Available

Vol XXX, No 1

MISSQURINTS From a bifocled Compositor

VOL VIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1981]

MISSQURINTS From a bifocled Compositor

VOL VIII, No 3 [Autumn, 1981]

Mafia, Cosa Nostra, Camorra, 'Ndrangheta and Mammasantissima George Bria

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

Mail Lib Clair Schulz

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

Mail Lib-Rejoinder Claire K. Schultz

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

Malcolm Frederic G. Cassidy

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Man Detained at Supermax Prison For Word Transposition Kenneth W. Cress

Vol XXXI, No 3

Mantic Mania Robert Devereux

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

Mapping the Words or How I Justified My Sneck Rosemary Courtney

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

Mark Twain and the English Language Richard Lederer

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

Master Malaprop James W. Higgins

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

Maumee River Canoe Trip

Vol XXX, No 3

Maxwell Bodenheim's Harlem Slang Louis Phillips

VOL XV, No 2 [Aytumn, 1984]

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch ... William H. Dougherty

VOL XVIII, No 4 [Spring 1991]

Medical Malapropisms: What Doctors Say, What Patients Hear Roger Smith

VOL XXVI, No 3

Menckenisms William S. Haubrich

VOL XXIV, No 4

Menu Barbarisms John G. Caffrey

Vol III, No 3 [December 1976]

Meretricious Words, or The Quean's English Bryan Garner

VOL VIII, No 3 [Autumn, 1981]

Metaphorically Speaking; or How to Hang on a Moment Deb Atwood

Vol XXXI, No 2

Microlinguistics Harry Cohen

VOL XIV, No 1 [Summer, 1987]

Milestones, Footrocks, and Inchpebbles in the Historical Development of Formal Logic 1 Steven Cushing

VOL XVII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

Mine Eye May Be Deceiv'd James C. Felty

VOL XIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1986]

Misquotations Norman W. Schur

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

Modern Language: Why Chicken Rectums Are More Relevant Than You Think Gary Buslik

Vol XXXI, No 1

Money of the Realm Peter K. Oppenheim

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1989]

Mongo No Like Legging: Family Expressions Deserving Wider Recognition Jessy Randall

Vol XXX, No 1

More -ine Adjectives Jay Dillon

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

More 180º Homonyms Dean Juniper

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

More About the Name Cowbird for Molothrus ater ater W.M. Woods

Vol III, No 3 [December 1976]

More Heteronyms: Addenda & Corrigenda Donald Drury

VOL X, No 1

More Nervous Onomasticae D.S. Bland

VOL XI, No 1 [Summer, 1984]

More Texas Prison Slang David Stuart Schofield

VOL XIX, No 2 [Autumn, 1992]

More Than Just Manitou Robert Devereux

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

More Than Meets the -ine Sam Hinton

Vol IV, No 3 [December 1977]

More Turkish Agglutinative Delights Norman R. Shapiro

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Moribund Metaphors Rise Against Sam Hinton

Vol IV, No 4 [September 1977]

Most Obscure Solecism of the Quarter

VOL VI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Mottoes from Zetland Bel Bailey

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Mountain Talk Raymond M. Kelly

VOL XXI, No 3 [Winter, 1995]

Mr. Przybysz and the Czech O'Shaunnessy Leonard R. N. Ashley

Vol II, No 1 [May 1975]

Mrs. Malaprop in Mexico Lysander Kemp

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1989]

Mrs. Malaprop's Bicentennial James D. White Mill Valley

Vol III, No 1 [May 1976]

Mubblefubbles: An Old-Fashioned Bout with the Black Dog; or Coming Down in the Mouth with a Case of the Humpy-Grumpies John L. Idol

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

Muddled Meaning Mary M. Tius

VOL XXIII, No 3 [Winter, 1997]

Murder! She Ejaculated Edmund Conti

Vol XXX, No 1

My Genetic Code

Vol XXXI, No 1

My Grandmother's “Spaghetta” Charles L. Todd

Vol IV, No 4 [September 1977]

N

'Nam, Gook, Gung-ho: Nonsense Henry Henn

VOL XIV, No 3 [Winter, 1988]

(Not) Spelling it Out For You Nicholas E. Meyer

Vol XXIX, No 3

NOTA BENE

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

Nabokov's Dirty Tricks Ray Russell

VOL VI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Names in Fiction Donald Hawes

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

Names of Santa Fe William H. Dougherty

VOL XVIII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

Namesakes Elaine von Bruns

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

Naming the Flora and the Fauna Barbara Hunt Lazerson

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

Naming-Day in Eden Nehemiah H. Behr

VOL XIII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

Needless to Say Peter Sypnowich

VOL XVII, No 1 [Summer 1990]

Negative Words Norman W. Schur

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

Neither “God” Nor “Aleichem” Is a Last Name Zellig Bach

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

Never Ask a Uruguayan Waitress for a Little Box: She Might Apply Her Foot to Your Eyelet John R. Cassidy

VOL X, No 1

Never Say 'Death' Daniel Krieger

Vol XXXII, No 1

New Blood in the Namestream John Tittensor

VOL XVI, No 4 [Spring, 1990]

New symbol, new word.

Vol IV, No 3 [December 1977]

Nifty Nomenclature Elaine T. Henry

VOL XVI, No 4 [Spring, 1990]

No Boys Named Sue, But... Hilary M. Howard

VOL XXII, No 1 [Summer, 1995]

No Nicknames in the Valleys Roger Dobson

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

No Sex, Please. We're English David L. Miles

VOL X, No 2 [Autumn, 1983]

No Trivial Matter William S. Murray

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

Noah Webster—An Appreciation David Soibelman

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

Non-Native Tongues Stephen Trussel

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

Noncing the Indefinite Article, Or, Do You Have A Nuncle? Thomas L. Bernard

VOL XXVI, No 3

Nonplussed by Plus Caldwell Titcomb

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

Notes Found in Bottles Deborah Wing

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

Notes Found in Bottles Deborah Wing

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

Notes Found in Bottles Deborah Wing

VOL V, No 3 [Winter, 1978]

Notes Found in Bottles Deborah Wing

VOL V, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Notes Found in Bottles Deborah Wing

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

Notes Found in Bottles Deborah Wing

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

Notes from a Cross and Down Competitor Edmund Conti

Vol XXIX, No 1

Notes from the Compound World Caryl Johnston

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

Notes on Meiosis Burling Lowrey

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

Noticing Nouns John de Forest

VOL XIV, No 4 [Spring, 1988]

Noun Overuse Phenomenon Article —Bruce D. Price

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

Nullspeak: A Question of Rotating Strawberry Madonnas Steve Bonner

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

O

Odd Couples Eric Winters

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

Ode to a Clodhopper Jerome Betts

Vol XXX, No 2

Of Chuffs, Topers, and Queans Barbara Sarkesian

VOL IX, No 3 [Winter, 1983]

Of Clouds and Clootie Dumplings Clare Passingham

Vol XXIX, No 3

Of Course, Cuthbert J.A. Davidson

VOL XV, No 2 [Aytumn, 1984]

Of Eating Rubber and Sno-cones Gerald Eskenazi

VOL XX, No 1 [Summer 1991]

Of Spooner, Spoonerisms and Other Matters John Ferguson

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Of “Coat-wearers” and “Kekiongas”: Native American Culture and “Indian” Nicknames David L. Simpson

VOL XIX, No 1 [Summer, 1992]

Off Base Barbara R. DuBois

VOL V, No 1 [May, 1987]

Offending Words Gerald Eskenazi

Vol XXIX, No 2

Oklahoma! Okay! Dick Mayo

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

Old World Names for New World Fish August Rubrecht

Vol XXXI, No 2

On Beyond Zebra, or, the No-Longer-Roman Alphabet Nyr Indictor

VOL XXI, No 3 [Winter, 1995]

On Chatter Henry William Brownejohns

Vol XXX, No 4

On Good Terms Richard L. Champlin

VOL XXII, No 1 [Summer, 1995]

On the So-called “Debate” over Black English Sol Saporta

VOL XXIII, No 4 [Autumn 1998]

One for the Road K. H. McIntosh

VOL XVII, No 4 [Spring 1991]

One, Two, Three Francis Heaney

Vol XXX, No 2

Onomatoplazia Chester Delaney

VOL XV, No 1 [Summer, 1988]

Ooglification in American English Slang Roger W. Wescott

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

Ormonyms/Junctures Brian Dibble

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Orthographe Mirabile Richard Lederer

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

Our Playful Vocabulary Burt Hochberg

VOL XIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1986]

Out Is In—But I'm Not Into Out Robert A. Fowkes

VOL V, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Out of the Mouths of . . . Twins Susan Elkin

VOL XXVI, No 2

Out of the Mouths of . . . Twins Susan Elkin

VOL XXVI, No 2

“Ormonyms” Ormly Gumfudgin

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

“Ouch!” he said in Japanese Axel Hornos, Pittsford

Vol III, No 1 [May 1976]

P

Pairing Pairs

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

Pairing Pairs No. 10 The clues are given in items lettered (a-z); the answers are given in the numbered items

VOL IX, No 3 [Winter, 1983]

Pairing Pairs No. 11 The clues are given in items lettered (a-z); the answers are given in the numbered items

VOL IX, No 3 [Spring, 1983]

Pairing Pairs No. 4 The clues are given in items lettered (a-z); the answers are given in numbered items which must be matched with each other to solve the clues. In some cases

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

Pairing Pairs No. 8

VOL IX, No 2 [Autumn, 1982]

Pairing Pairs No. 9 The clues are given in items lettered (a-z); the answers are given in the numbered items

VOL IX, No 2 [Autumn, 1982]

Pairing Pairs No. 9

VOL IX, No 3 [Winter, 1983]

Pairing Pairs Prize

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Palaver Sauce: A Thematic Selection of West African Proverbs Martin Wilmot Bennet

VOL XXVII, No 1

Palindromes: The Art of Reverse English Richard Lederer

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Pathologic Pantry Alan and Janice Coulson

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

Patterned Words and Phrases Barbara Hunt Lazerson

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

Peaks One and Two

Vol XXXI, No 1

Pension Fund Language Joanne Mason

Vol XXXI, No 4

People of the Books: Biographical Entries in Dictionaries Robert Ilson

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Periodic Table Manners1 (The Carnival of the Elements) Nick Humez (argentarius@juno.com)

VOL XXIII, No 4 [Autumn 1998]

Permission, Admission, Remission and the Missionaries Laurence Urdang

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

Philip Howard on English English Philip Howard

VOL V, No 3 [Winter, 1978]

Philip Howard on English English Philip Howard

VOL V, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Philip Howard on English English Philip Howard

VOL VI, No 1 [Summer, 1979]

Philip Howard on English English Philip Howard

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

Philip Howard on English English Philip Howard

VOL VI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Philip Howard on English English Hyperbole

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

Philip Howard on English English The Family Talpidae

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Philip Howard on English English Wizard

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

Philip Howard on English English Philip Howard

VOL VIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1981]

Philip Howard on English English Philip Howard

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

Philip Howard on English English Philip Howard

VOL IX, No 2 [Autumn, 1982]

Philip Howard on English English Philip Howard

VOL IX, No 3 [Spring, 1983]

Philip Howard on English English: Byzantine Philip Howard

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

Philip Howard on English English: Halcyon Philip Howard

VOL VIII, No 3 [Autumn, 1981]

Philip Howard on English English: Pronunciation

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

Phlegmatic Scholarship: Ahem! A Cross-Cultural Study of the Signifying Throat-Clear Justa Little-Hörss

Vol XXXI, No 1

Phobia Foibles Albert Bender

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

Phonatics (sic[k])

Vol I, No 4

Phreddy Is a Phynque: Two Graphs for One Sound Robert A. Fowkes

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

Phrenology and Language Marian Niles Walker

Vol XXX, No 4

Pimping David A. Cory

Vol XXXI, No 3

Plain Talk, or the Case of the Vanishing Vocabulary David Galef

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

Plane Speaking Steven Cushing

VOL XXI, No 2 [Autumn, 1994]

Playing Boggle with My Sister

Vol XXX, No 2

Playing Words with Games Stephen Hirschberg

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

Playing a Doublet Game Hugh Dovey

VOL IX, No 3 [Spring, 1983]

Playing the Numbers Game Richard Lederer

VOL XIV, No 3 [Winter, 1988]

Please Don't F*** the Grass Ann E. Bennaton

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

Pleonasties Harold J. Ellner

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

Pluralia Tantum or E Pluribus Unum: Three Adventures with the Plural Anatoly Liberman

Vol XXXI, No 1

Plurality David Galef

Vol XXXI, No 3

Poetic Licenses Paula Van Gelder

VOL XIV, No 4 [Spring, 1988]

Poison Penmanship Richard Conniff

VOL XIV, No 3 [Winter, 1988]

Political Incorrectness

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

Politically Correct Nomenclature or, How to Win at Trivial Pursuit and Lose Friends Marc A. Schindler

VOL XVIII, No 4 [Spring 1991]

Politicking with Words: On Ideology and Dictionary Meaning Ashok K. Mohapatra

VOL XXII, No 1 [Summer, 1995]

Polysemania, Semantic Taint, and Related Conditions John Ellison Kahn

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

Porcine Semantics Robert Devereux

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

Portmanteaus, Telescopes, Jumbles John Algeo

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

Power Users Dump Baudy Language: The Ambivalent Nature of Computer Slang David Isaacson

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

Preface Robert A. Fowkes

VOL VIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1981]

Prep School Slanguage Richard Lederer

VOL IX, No 3 [Spring, 1983]

Preposition Pollution Barbara R. DuBois

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

Prepositional Epiphany William H. Dougherty

VOL XXVI, No 3

Prepositions and Other Words Not to End a Sentence With

Vol III, No 1 [May 1976]

Presidential Words Richard Lederer

Vol XXIX, No 2

Prewarned Is Prearmed Orin Hargraves

VOL XXVIII, No 1

Primer David Galef

VOL XXIV, No 4

Primults or Protohysts Robert A. Fowkes

VOL XI, No 2 [Autumn, 1984]

Product Names Mike Warburton

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

Professional Wrestling's Clandestine Jargon John Lister

Vol XXXI, No 2

Pronouns in Thai Euan Harvey

Vol XXXI, No 4

Proper Names into Adjectives Don Salper

VOL VIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1981]

Proper Words in Proper Places Rosemary Bowmer

VOL XXII, No 1 [Summer, 1995]

Proverbially Speaking

Vol III, No 2 [September 1976]

Proverbs Are Never Out of Season: Popular Wisdom of the Modern Age

VOL XX, No 3 [Winter 1994]

Proverbs Up-to-Date Graeme Garvey

VOL XXVI, No 2

Prurient Prudes Laurence Urdang

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

Pub Names in the 21st Century Mike Warburton

VOL XXVI, No 3

Public Cutespeak Dennis Baron

VOL XIII, No 4 [Spring, 1986]

Punch on the Bungalow Veranda Robert Devereux

VOL XVIII, No 1 [Summer 1991]

Puzzle

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

Q

Qat in Yemen Gregory Johnson

Vol XXXI, No 1

Quasi Malediction: The Case of Linguistic Malentendu D.G. Kehl

VOL X, No 1

R

R. A. Acronyms David Galef

Vol XXIX, No 3

READER'S QUERY

VOL VI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

READER'S QUERY: A Punctuation Parable

VOL VIII, No 4 [Autumn, 1981]

READERS' QUERIES

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

READERS' QUERIES

VOL VI, No 1 [Summer, 1979]

READERS' QUERIES

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

REVIEWS: THE GREAT AMERICAN BLOW-UP: Puffery in Advertising and Selling Ivan L. Preston

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

Racing for Definitions in South Africa M. Lynne Murphy

VOL XXIV, No 2

Reaching for the Ready-Made Anthony Cowie

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Reading Non-Sequentially: The Peculiar Kanbun System Nyr Indictor

VOL XXI, No 2 [Autumn, 1994]

Reading the Traces of James Murray in the Oxford English Dictionary John Considine

VOL XXIV, No 2

Red Pants Robert M. Sebastian

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Redundancy in Natural Languages Steve Bonner

VOL XVII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

Reflections on Indian Words, Among Others Norman Ward

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Regional Report No. 1 —The Bay Area Jean Montgomery

Vol IV, No 4 [September 1977]

Rendering the Language of Daad Orin Hargraves

VOL XXVII, No 1

Resume II

VOL XXVI, No 3

Return to Grose John Ferguson

VOL X, No 1

Review: BUZZWORDS: A Guide to the Language of Leadership

Vol I, No 2

Review: MRS. BYRNE'S DICTIONARY of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words

Vol I, No 2

Review: STRICTLY SPEAKING

Vol I, No 2

Review: THE ASTONISHMENT OF WORDS

Vol I, No 2

Review: WORD PLAY: What Happens When People Talk

Vol I, No 1

Review: WORDS AND THEIR MASTERS

Vol I, No 2

Reviews: A CONCORDANCE TO THE POEMS OF ALEXANDER POPE compiled by Emmett G. Bedford and Robert J. Dilligan

Vol II, No 1 [May 1975]

Reviews: A DESK-BOOK OF ERRORS IN ENGLISH

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

Reviews: A STUDY OF WRITING

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

Reviews: A WORD CHILD Iris Murdoch

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

Reviews: AFTER BABEL George Steiner

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

Reviews: AMERICAN ENGLISH Albert H. Marckwardt

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

Reviews: AN ALMANAC OF WORDS AT PLAY by Willard R. Espy

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

Reviews: APES, MEN, AND LANGUAGES

Vol II, No 1 [May 1975]

Reviews: BREWER'S DICTIONARY OF PHRASE & FABLE revised by Ivor H. Evans

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

Reviews: BRITISH SELF-TAUGHT: WITH COMMENTS IN AMERICAN

Vol I, No 2

Reviews: JACK AND JILL: A Study in Our Christian Names

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

Reviews: LANGUAGE AND PUBLIC POLICY

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

Reviews: MACMILLAN DICTIONARY FOR CHILDREN William D. Halsey

Vol II, No 1 [May 1975]

Reviews: NAMES ON THE GLOBE George R. Stewart

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

Reviews: NEW ACRONYMS AND INITIALISMS 1975

Vol II, No 1 [May 1975]

Reviews: THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States H.L. Mencken

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

Reviews: THE D.C. DIALECT: How To Master the Language of Washington in Ten Easy Lessons Paul Morgan and Sue Scott

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

Reviews: THE EMBEDDING Ian Watson

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

Reviews: THE HARVARD CONCORDANCE TO SHAKESPEARE Marvin Spevack

Vol I, No 3

Reviews: THE LANGUAGE OF OPPRESSION

Vol I, No 4

Reviews: THE RANDOM HOUSE COLLEGE DICTIONARY Revised Edition

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

Reviews: THE STORY OF THE ALEPH BETH

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

Reviews: THE UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Henry Cecil Wyld

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

Reviews: WORDS AND WAYS OF AMERICAN ENGLISH Thomas Pyles

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

Reviews: YOUR PET'S SECRET LANGUAGE: How To Understand and Speak It Jhan Robbins

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

Revising The F-Word Jesse Sheidlower

VOL XXIII, No 4 [Autumn 1998]

Revolting Arabs, Injured Livers, and Streaking Indians Harold J. Ellner

VOL VIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1981]

RhoDislan Says It Different Frank J. Jones

VOL IX, No 3 [Winter, 1983]

Rhyme Without Reason Richard Lederer

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

Rhyme and Jingle Joann Karges

VOL VI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Rhyme and Punishment Sir Randolph Quirk

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Richard Albert Wilson: The Canadian Scholar on Whom Bernard Shaw Tried to Grind His Alphabet Axe J. A. Davidson

VOL XVI, No 2 [Autumn, 1989]

Rivals the brilliance of genuine diamonds!

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

Rose Moles Lawrence Dugan

VOL XI, No 2 [Autumn, 1984]

Roundabout East Anglia Bel Bailey

VOL XX, No 1 [Summer 1991]

Rumplestiltskin or Rumpelstiltskin? The seven common misspellings of my five-letter name John Huebl

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

S

S? Yes! Barbara R. DuBois

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

SCHOLEGRAPHIA: Option, The Double-Sided Word Game Parker Brothers

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

Safire's Syndrome John H. Felts

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

Salty Sayings from Cornwall Bel Bailey

VOL XXIII, No 3 [Winter, 1997]

Save Me Judith B. Herman

Vol XXXII, No 2 [Spring 2008]

Say It with Words Martin Gani

VOL XXVIII, No 1

Say, You Have a Point There, I Guess Donald R. Morris

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

Schadenfreude Sam Brearley

VOL XX, No 4 [Spring 1994]

Schweppes, le 'drink' des gens raffinés Myrna Knepler

Vol IV, No 4 [September 1977]

Science Words for Humanists Arthur Plotnik

VOL XIII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

Score-bored Clair Schulz

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

Scoring Jargon David C. Ferris

Vol IV, No 2 [September 1977]

Searching for Soma Mary M. Tius

VOL VIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1981]

Searching for the First Words Rosemarie Ostler

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

Secrets of 'American English' May Yield to Dialect Geography William Safire

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

Seinfeldisms Paul McFedries

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

Self-referring Words Alexander J. Pollock

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

Sex and the Single Noun Thora Von Male

Vol XXX, No 2

Shakespeare's Legal Language D.S. Bland

VOL XIV, No 4 [Spring, 1988]

Sherlock Holmes Adds A Word Walter P. Armstrong

VOL XIV, No 3 [Winter, 1988]

Shocking News from the West Vera L. Harding

VOL V, No 1 [May, 1987]

Shortcuts David Galef

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

Simon Says Martin Panzer

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

Simply Singlish Keith Hall

Vol XXIX, No 1

Sinister Dexterity 1 Karl F. Heumann and Hans H. Wellisch

VOL XIV, No 2 [Autumn, 1987]

Skip To The Loo: Loo in Its (Indo-) European Context Anatoly Liberman

VOL XXVI, No 3

Slang from Greyfriars Bel Bailey

VOL XXI, No 1 [Summer, 1994]

Slayer Slang (Part 1) Michael Adams

VOL XXIV, No 3

Slayer Slang (Part 2) Michael Adams

VOL XXIV, No 4

So What Else Is Nous? Herb Kraus

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

Solution to Verbal Analogies I:

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1989]

Solution to Verbal Analogies III

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

Solution to Verbal Analogies V

VOL XVII, No 1 [Summer 1990]

Solutions to Such a Stew About Punning

Vol XXX, No 1

Some English Loanwords in Thai Paul Blackford

VOL XXI, No 1 [Summer, 1994]

Some Fundamentals of Fundamentalism J.A. Davidson

VOL XX, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Some Impletons DEFINITIONS

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

Some Interesting Characteristics of Non-Indo-European Languages Laurence Urdang

VOL IX, No 2 [Autumn, 1982]

Some Secrets of English Nicknames Ralph H. Emerson

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

Sound and Sense David Galef

VOL XXI, No 2 [Autumn, 1994]

Southern Amerind Lexical Contributions Robert Devereux

VOL IX, No 3 [Winter, 1983]

Speak of the Devil: Dangerous Names Jessy Randall

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

Speaking English Julie Elizabeth Graham

VOL XII, No 1 [Summer, 1985]

Speaking Plain Yorkshire Anne Moore

Vol XXXI, No 1

Speaking of the Unmentionables Don Sharp

VOL XVIII, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Speaking with a Horse Voice Alan Major

VOL XX, No 4 [Spring 1994]

Species

Vol XXXI, No 1

Spell-Bound

Vol III, No 2 [September 1976]

Spelt As It Sounds David Galef

VOL XXVI, No 3

Spherical Containment Device Theodor Schuchat

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

Sportswriting Gerald Eskenazi

Vol XXXI, No 2

Spy Euphemisms Victor Lasseter

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

Stalin, Marr, and the Struggle for a Soviet Linguistics Neile A. Kirk

Vol XXXI, No 3

Stamp Out Fadspeak! Richard Lederer

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

Street Names Fun Game Axel Hornos

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Stress Mary M. Tius

VOL XXI, No 1 [Summer, 1994]

Stuff and Nonsense Richard Lederer

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

Subtitles: Or, the Forgotten Words Pat Tompkins

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

Subversion by Adverb Orin HargravesWestminster

Vol XXX, No 1

Such a Fine Pot of Curry: South Asian Influences on the English Lexicon Mike Youngblood

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

Such a Stew About Punning A. H. BlockBronxville

Vol XXX, No 1

Sussex Speak Bel Bailey

VOL XIX, No 4 [Spring, 1993]

Sympathy and Empathy Matthew Beam

XXVII, No. 2

sexual intercourse in American College Dictionaries

Vol I, No 1

“Schindler's List” of Ashkenaz's Names Marc A. Schindler

VOL XXI, No 1 [Summer, 1994]

T

THE STRANGE CASE OF DOCTOR ROTCOD Richard Lederer

VOL XVI, No 1 [Summer, 1989]

THEY

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

Take a Left on Sore Finger Road Kay Haugaard

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

Taking Bridge Too Far: The Words Goren Forgot Michael J. Corey

Vol XXXII, No 2 [Spring 2008]

Talk Like a Gamer Greg Costikyan

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

Talking Turkey Robert A. Fowkes

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

Teacherese Tim Kane

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

Television Advertising and the Language of Myth Robert E. Ziegler

VOL X, No 1

Texas Prison Slang David Stuart Schofield

VOL XVIII, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Texican Maxey Brooke

VOL XV, No 2 [Aytumn, 1984]

Thanks, But I Think I'll Pass on the Smashed Balls Brett Jocelyn Epstein

Vol XXXI, No 2

That Dirty Bird Steven R. Hicks

Vol III, No 3 [December 1976]

The 'Phenomenon Calendar' of the Xhosa Bertie Neethling

VOL XXVI, No 4

The 23rd Psalm and Me, or Has the Nightingale Become a Crow? Grace Hollander

VOL XVI, No 2 [Autumn, 1989]

The Alphabet Abecedarium: Some Notes on Letters

VOL XXII, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

The Alphabet Is Killing Us

Vol XXX, No 2

The American Dialect Society in Albuquerque: Notes from the Academy Awards of Words Mark Peters

Vol XXX, No 4

The American Spelling Reform Movement Richard Whelan

XXVII, No. 4 [Autumn 2002]

The Arabic Star-Names E.E. Rehmus

VOL V, No 3 [Winter, 1978]

The Art and Technique of Citation Reading Laurence Urdang

Vol II, No 1 [May 1975]

The Beginning in a Word Patricia Bralley

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

The Blendsational Language of Contemporary Commerce Barbara Hunt Lazerson

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

The Book Of Surnames and The Origin Of English Surnames

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

The Bound and Gagged Morpheme Roger Smith

VOL XVI, No 1 [Summer, 1989]

The Bows' Stratagem Peter A. Douglas

VOL VI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

The Cape Cod Reader Henry Morgan

Vol III, No 3 [December 1976]

The Carribean Dichotomy Larry Tritten

Vol XXX, No 4

The Case for Small Words Richard Lederer

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

The Case of Gender Robert N. Goss

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

The Case of Nyungar Bill Ramson

VOL XXIII, No 3 [Winter, 1997]

The Cassell Book of Proverbs

VOL XX, No 3 [Winter 1994]

The Christening Ray Russell

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

The Citation File

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

The Coming Hybrids Tom McArthur

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

The Communication Ravine Ruth Riedel

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

VOL XX, No 3 [Winter 1994]

The Corporatization of Verbal Communication Processes Keith Hall

Vol XXX, No 2

The Cryptic Toolbox Harry Cohen

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1989]

The Day They Took the Peck out of Pecksniffian Doug Briggs

VOL XXII, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

The Deep Structure of Breakfast Cereals Steve Bonner

VOL XIII, No 4 [Spring, 1986]

The Encompassing Circle Arthur J. Morgan

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

The Ethnocentricity of Email Simon Darragh

Vol XXIX, No 2

The Exception That Proves the Rule Steve Coughlan

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

The Exception That Proves the Rule Weldon Ellis

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

The Expanded Modifier Margaret M. Bryant

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

The Expanding Lexicon of One-letter Words Richard Bauerle

VOL XV, No 1 [Summer, 1988]

The Failures of Success Laurence Urdang

VOL X, No 1

The Fifth Estate Tom McArthur

VOL XV, No 2 [Aytumn, 1984]

The First Use of a Word; How Can You Find it? A piffling little case study Dr. Bob Turvey

Vol XXXI, No 1

The Foreignym Jim Behling

VOL XXIV, No 4

The Franglais Blues Martyn Ecott

VOL XX, No 3 [Winter 1994]

The Gaelic View of Heather Donald A. MacKay

VOL XVII, No 2 [Autumn 1990]

The Game of the Name John E. Thorpe

VOL XXII, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

The Germanization of American English Stanley Mason

VOL XVI, No 4 [Spring, 1990]

The Glamour of Grammar Richard Lederer

VOL XVI, No 4 [Spring, 1990]

The Good Life Robert A. Fowkes

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

The Great Vowel Shift

Vol XXXI, No 1

The Gremlins of E.T. Zellig Bach

VOL XVIII, No 4 [Spring 1991]

The Grockles of Goodrington Jerome Betts

VOL XXIII, No 2 [Summer, 1996]

The Growing Use and Abuse of Literally Elaine F. Tankard and James W. Tankard

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

The Head of Coty's Wife Murry Harris

VOL VIII, No 3 [Autumn, 1981]

The Humble Origins of the Chad Fred R. Shapiro

VOL XXVI, No 2

The Humble Origins of the Chad Fred R. Shapiro

VOL XXVI, No 2

The Hyperbolic Contrast Tony Percy

Vol XXX, No 4

The Imperative of Opposites Zellig Bach

VOL X, No 4 [ Spring 1984]

The Ineffable F — r-letter Word Benedict B. Kimmelman

VOL XVI, No 2 [Autumn, 1989]

The Intrusive s Ronald Mansbridge

VOL XXII, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

The Joy of English Florence Ginzbursky

Vol XXIX, No 3

The Joy of Scottish English: Chambers 20th Century Dictionary J.A. Davidson

VOL XV, No 1 [Summer, 1988]

The Joys and Oys of Yiddish Richard Lederer

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

The King of Wordsmiths Daniel Temianka

VOL XXIII, No 1 [Summer, 1996]

The Lamps of Speech Martin Bennett

VOL XXI, No 1 [Summer, 1994]

The Language of Consuming Passions Rebecca Christian

VOL X, No 2 [Autumn, 1983]

The Language of History Pamela Webb

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

The Language of Past Money Alan Major

VOL XIX, No 4 [Spring, 1993]

The Language of Porn Sites Fraser Sutherland

VOL XXV, No 2

The Languishing Art Stanford L. Luce

Vol II, No 2 [September 1975]

The Legal Word Book

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

The Lofty and/or Assumptive We Donald Drury

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

The Long and the Short of It David Galef

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

The Meaning of Murder Steven Cushing

VOL XXIII, No 2 [Summer, 1996]

The Meaning of Personal Names Daniel Dorff

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

The Meaning of Scientific Names Sam Hinton

VOL XI, No 1 [Summer, 1984]

The Misplaced Stop Herman Doh

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

The Morox David Galef

VOL XIV, No 2 [Autumn, 1987]

The Most Lively Consonants in the World Ralph H. Emerson

VOL XXV, No 3

The Mysterious Origin of the Tarot E.E. Rehmus San Francisco

Vol III, No 1 [May 1976]

The Names of Some North American Indian Tribes Mary M. Tius

VOL XIX, No 2 [Autumn, 1992]

The Naming of Poisons Jon Buller

VOL XVII, No 2 [Autumn 1990]

The New Orthography Elln Perkins

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

The Niceness Principle David Galef

VOL XVII, No 4 [Spring 1991]

The Nihongo Religion 1 Paul V. Axton

VOL XIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1986]

The OED Online Howard Richler

VOL XXV, No 3

The Ones That Got Away: Some Words That Escaped From the Chambers Dictionary Ian Brookes

VOL XXVI, No 3

The Passing Game: The Joys and Challenges of Fooling Native Speakers Michael J. Corey

Vol XXX, No 3

The Past As Prologue William H. Dougherty

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

The Pause That Refreshes David Galef

VOL XX, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

The Pearl of Hex Virginia Howard

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

The Poem Recently Attributed to Shakespeare and the Misuse of Dictionaries David L. Gold

VOL XIV, No 3 [Winter, 1988]

The Politically Correct US Supreme Court and the Motherfucking Texas Court of Criminal Appeals: Using Legal Databases to Trace the Origins of Words Fred R. Shapiro

XXVII, No. 4 [Autumn 2002]

The Pop Grammarians— Good Intentions, Silly Ideas, and Doublespeak Charles Suhor

VOL X, No 3 [Winter, 1984]

The Power in the Punch of Welsh Valleys English Lucy Williams

Vol XXXII, No 1

The Power of Doubled Words R.F. Bauerle

VOL XVIII, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

The Problem of Names J. A. Davidson

VOL XXIII, No 1 [Summer, 1996]

The Pun Is Mightier Than the Sword A Short History of Paronomasia Victor Margolin

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

The Rhetoric of Real Estate John E. Kahn

VOL XIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1986]

The Right Word

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

The Saloon-Bar Pundit: The Bane of the Philologist's Life J. L. A. Hartley

Vol XXXII, No 1

The Scandalous Yiddish Guide of the Census Bureau Zellig Bach

VOL XVII, No 2 [Autumn 1990]

The Seat of Our Affections Clair Schulz

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

The Seating of Zotz Walter C. Kidney

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

The Serendipity of Cotyledon Gene Gramm

VOL XIV, No 3 [Winter, 1988]

The Simpsons: Embiggening Our Language with Cromulent Words Mark Peters

Vol XXX, No 2

The Sinister Side of the Language J. Frank Schulman

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

The Skinny on the Dictionary of One-Letter Words Craig Conley

Vol XXIX, No 2

The Slang of the Day

VOL XXVII, No 1

The Sneeze: More Than Just Ah-Choo and Bless You Jessy Randall

XXVII, No. 4 [Autumn 2002]

The Sounds of Inglish Vishwas R. Gaitonde

VOL XVII, No 2 [Autumn 1990]

The Staff of Life Margaret Marco

VOL XXIII, No 2 [Summer, 1996]

The Story of Writing

VOL XXII, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

The Strange and Quarky Language of Physics Richard F. Bauerle

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

The Strong Sex Harry Cohen

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

The Titled Proletariat John Ayto

VOL XX, No 1 [Summer 1991]

The Trivial Pursuit of Grammar Michael Gorman

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

The Trouble With Janus Words David Galef

XXVII, No. 2

The True Meaning of Christmas Richard Lederer

VOL XIII, No 2 [Autumn, 1986]

The True Meaning of Christmas Leo Stages

VOL XXI, No 2 [Autumn, 1994]

The Un-History of the Undead: From Superstition to Celluloid Tim Kane

Vol XXXI, No 4

The Unfairness of Articles Martin A. Zeidner

VOL VII, No 4 [Spring 1981]

The Use of Quotes

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

The Verbal Ape: How Evolutionary Pressures Set the Stage for Language Purists August Rubrecht

VOL XXVIII, No 1

The Viking Linguistic Legacy S. B. Godinez

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

The Violent English Language Richard Lederer

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

The Way That They Tell 'em Donald MacIntosh

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

The Way of a Wag Edward C. Pinkerton

VOL IX, No 3 [Winter, 1983]

The World According to Student Bloopers Richard Lederer

VOL XIII, No 4 [Spring, 1986]

The World of Abbreviations and Acronyms Dal Yoo

VOL XVIII, No 1 [Summer 1991]

The Worthlessness of Lads and Lasses Anatoly Liberman

Vol XXXI, No 2

The Written Word

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

The Zimbabwe Constitution: On Negotiations Albert P. Blaustein

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

The joy of jabberwocking J. A. Davidson

VOL XXII, No 1 [Summer, 1995]

The “Uphill Mississippi” Phenomenon and Openness to Unfamiliar Ideas Robert L. Birch

Vol IV, No 3 [December 1977]

The “Wicked” Bibles or, Let Him Who is Without Sin Among You Cast the First Line of Type Ray Russell

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

Theological Bafflegab or How to Unsay It Rev. Walter Niebrzydowski

VOL VI, No 2 [Autumn 1979]

There Just Isn't a Word for It John R. Cassidy

VOL XVIII, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Thesaurusising, A Little-Known Art Juliette Shapiro

VOL XXVI, No 3

This Peculiar Boston Accent Mary Louise Gilman

Vol II, No 1 [May 1975]

Three Limericks

Vol XXXI, No 1

Thunderboxes and Chuggies Daniel Balado-Lopez

VOL XIX, No 4 [Spring, 1993]

Time and Life Julienne Eden Busic

VOL XIV, No 2 [Autumn, 1987]

Titillating Titles Allison Whitehead

VOL XX, No 4 [Spring 1994]

To Abbrev. or Not to Abbreviate Don Sharp

VOL XVII, No 2 [Autumn 1990]

To Bury the Hatchetmen Dwight Bolinger

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

To Cave

Vol III, No 2 [September 1976]

To Curf and Thrash, and Vex and Dash Jerome Betts

XXVII, No. 4 [Autumn 2002]

To Understand America (and Americans).... John O. Herbold II

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

To the Foot of the Letter, I'm Listening to a Turkish Sermon! Helen King

VOL XVIII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

Today's Lesson Laurence Urdang

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

Tom Pearce, Tom Pearce, Lend Me Your Good Ear Jerome Betts

VOL XXVIII, No 3 [Autumn 2003]

Tom Sawyer Whitewashed Nancy LaRoche Hartford

Vol III, No 2 [September 1976]

Tomorrow's Business Buzzwords Michael Johnson

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Tosspots and Wraprascals Andrew E. Norman

VOL V, No 1 [May, 1987]

Towards a New Literature Robert Adams

VOL XXII, No 2 [Autumn, 1995]

Traduttore Traditore Marcy S. Powell

VOL X, No 1

Traduttore Traditore E.J. Moncada

VOL V, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Transatlanguage Nicholas Whitehead

VOL XVI, No 4 [Spring, 1990]

Translating for the Old Ball Game Ron Kaplan

Vol XXXI, No 2

Translating the Language of Birds William Young

VOL XXVIII, No 1

Translators: Know Thy Culture Sharon Queano

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

Traveler's Credo Mary E. Gross

VOL Vol III, No 4 [February 1977]

Trite 'n' True

Vol III, No 2 [September 1976]

Troy Romps—Hector Blanks Creeks on Two-hitter Charles N. Faerber

VOL VII, No 3 [Winter 1980/81]

Try It Again, Please Lillian Mermin Feinsilver

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1984]

Turkeys, Bombs, and Other Theatrical Souvenirs Stephen E. Hirschberg

VOL XIII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

Turning Spam into Haiku Jim Veihdeffer

Vol XXIX, No 3

Turning To Nod Goodbye Josephine Crilly

VOL XXIII, No 1 [Summer, 1996]

Twelve Notes on the Canadian Oxford Dictionary John Considine

XXVI, No. 1 [Winter 2001]

Twenty-six Sticks Alden Stahr

Vol IV, No 2 [September 1977]

Two Fingers Up to the French Madeleine McDonald

Vol XXIX, No 1

“The Bronx?/No, thonx” —Ogden Nash Abraham Tauber

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

“Tide-end town, which is Teddington” (or is it?) Adrian Room

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

“Till Death Us Do Part” Archibald A. Hill

VOL V, No 1 [May, 1987]

U

Ulsterisms for Everyday Use Anne Moore

Vol XXX, No 3

Unconsciously Appropriate and Inappropriate Metaphors Donald Hawes

Vol IV, No 4 [September 1977]

Understanding English Place-Names and How Place-Names Began

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

Unexpected Surprises Gerald Eskenazi

VOL XXVII, No 1

Unlikely? That's the Name of the Game Warren Tupper Way

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

Unmasking the Metaphor Larry Tritten

VOL XX, No 3 [Winter 1994]

Unofficial Sectional City Names Frederic G. Cassidy

VOL VII, No 2 [Autumn 1980]

Unraveling the American Place-Name Cover Frank R. Abate

VOL XVIII, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Untitled Larry Tritten

Vol XXX, No 1

Untitled

Vol XXXI, No 2

Unusual Place Names in Canada Marc A. Schindler

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

Up or Down to You John Musgrave

VOL XXII, No 3 [Winter, 1996]

Ups and Downs David Galef

VOL XXIII, No 4 [Autumn 1998]

Useful Usage

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

User-Friendly Turkish Martin Gani

Vol XXXI, No 1

“Unofficial Sectional City Names”: Postscript Madison

VOL VIII, No 1 [Summer 1981]

V

VERBUM SAP: 'Ard Lines Robertson Cochrane

VOL XIX, No 4 [Spring, 1993]

VERBUM SAP: Ha...ha...have one on me! Robertson Cochrane

VOL XXII, No 2 [Autumn, 1995]

VERBUM SAP: Me and Empathy Robertson Cochrane

VOL XXI, No 4 [Spring, 1995]

VERBUM SAP: My Tainted Ain't Robertson Cochrane

VOL XX, No 3 [Winter 1994]

VERBUM SAP: Niggles in a Haystack Robertson Cochrane

VOL XX, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

VERBUM SAP: Par for the Coarse Robertson Cochrane

VOL XXI, No 3 [Winter, 1995]

VERBUM SAP: Speaking of the Ineffable Robert Cochrane

VOL XX, No 4 [Spring 1994]

VERBUM SAP: The Media Is the Message Robertson Cochrane

VOL XXI, No 1 [Summer, 1994]

VERBUM SAP: To Verb or Not to Verb Robertson Cochrane

VOL XXI, No 2 [Autumn, 1994]

Vengeful Verse: Revenge Reversed —Don L. Jewett

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

Verbal Aggression in The Wizard of Oz Reinhold Aman

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Verbal Analogies Dr. P.A. Pomfret

VOL XXIV, No 3

Verbal Analogies Dr. P. A. Pomfrit

VOL XXIV, No 4

Verbal Analogies Dr. P. A. Pomfrit

VOL XXV, No 1

Verbal Analogies Dr. P. A. Pomfrit

VOL XXV, No 2

Verbal Analogies Dr. P. A. Pomfrit

VOL XXV, No 3

Verbal Analogies Answers

VOL XXIV, No 3

Verbal Analogies Answers

VOL XXIV, No 4

Verbal Analogies III—Measures D.A. Pomfrit

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

Verbal Analogies II—Miscellaneous D.A. Pomfrit

VOL XVI, No 2 [Autumn, 1989]

Verbal Analogies IV—Miscellaneous D.A. Pomfrit

VOL XVI, No 4 [Spring, 1990]

Verbal Analogies I—Miscellaneous D.A. Pomfrit

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1989]

Verbal Analogies V—Divination D.A. Pomfrit

VOL XVII, No 1 [Summer 1990]

Verbifying in America Noel Perrin

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

Verlan: The French Pig Latin J.J. Davis

Vol XXIX, No 3

Vestiges Mary M. Tius

VOL XX, No 1 [Summer 1991]

Village People David Dunning

Vol XXXI, No 2

Voice Over

Vol XXIX, No 3

W

War Is Hell, Naming Them Ain't Too Easy Either Kathleen E. Miller

VOL XXVIII, No 1

War and the OED Gerald Nelson

VOL XX, No 4 [Spring 1994]

Watching All the Guys Go By Norman R. Shapiro

VOL VI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Way To Go, Aubie! Brian Cahill

VOL XIV, No 1 [Summer, 1987]

We Do Not Talk Only With Our Mouths Walburga von Raffler-Engel

Vol IV, No 3 [December 1977]

We Shall Know Them By Their Roots Clair Schulz

Vol IV, No 2 [September 1977]

Westward Ho W.S. Ramson

VOL XX, No 4 [Spring 1994]

What Do Poets Want?

Vol XXX, No 2

What Do You Call a Person from...? Robert R. Rasmussen

VOL XIII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

What Gall Joe Queenan

VOL XVI, No 3 [Winter, 1990]

What I Told the Student From Brooklyn About Why He Flunked English

Vol XXXI, No 3

What Is Dementia? Martin G. Netsky

VOL XXI, No 2 [Autumn, 1994]

What Mrs. Garnett Never Told Us Alex Auswaks

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

What a Cliché! David Galef

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

What's So T about a T-Shirt? A textual and etymological analysis of T-shirts Keith J. Hall

VOL XXVIII, No 1

What's Your Phobia? Richard Lederer

VOL X, No 1

What's in a Roman Name? Paul Pascal

VOL XVII, No 2 [Autumn 1990]

What's in an Article? Louis Jay Herman

VOL XX, No 1 [Summer 1991]

What's the French for “Fiddle de dee”?

VOL XXIV, No 2

What's “In” a Kentish Saying? Alan Major

VOL XX, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Whatever Happened to Frank Beriberi? Hubert Pritchard

VOL XX, No 1 [Summer 1991]

When Everything Was Everything Joe Queenan

VOL XII, No 3 [Winter, 1986]

When Paragons Nod Lillian Mermin Feinsilver

VOL VIII, No 4 [Autumn, 1981]

When You Say It in Other Words... Zellig Bach

VOL XIII, No 1 [Summer, 1986]

When is a Word Not a Word? or, Spurious Words in the Oxford English Dictionary Peter Gilliver

Vol XXXI, No 3

Where Did He Put the Pen of My Aunt? Navajo Revealed David C. Cates

VOL XXV, No 1

Where the Harts Wear Pants —Sister Mary Terese Donze

Vol II, No 4 [February 1976]

Whither Thou, Thee, Thy and Thine Dan E. Soyka

VOL XIV, No 1 [Summer, 1987]

Who Do You Believe?

Vol IV, No 1 [May 1977]

Who Needs Enemies...? Harry Cohen

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

Who Put the Nick in My Name? Gloria Rosenthal

Vol XXX, No 1

Who Wrote That?!

VOL VII, No 1 [Summer 1980]

Who is Rula Lenska? Some Thoughts on Reference Don L. F. Nilsen

VOL XII, No 1 [Summer, 1985]

Why All Living Things Have Latin Names Douglas S. Dodge

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Why Bud Weiser Can Sell Cars (But Not Beer) Shawn M. Clankie

VOL XXVI, No 3

Why “Butterfly”? Axel Hornos

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

Widows, Orphans, and ?—Semantic Holes Sol Saporta

VOL XXIV, No 3

Windy English Geoffrey Wagner

VOL XIX, No 4 [Spring, 1993]

Wine Vocabulary and Wine Description Adrienne Lehrer

VOL XVIII, No 3 [Winter 1991]

Winking Words Philip Michael Cohen

Vol IV, No 3 [December 1977]

Winners of the VERBATIM $2500 Contest

VOL X, No 2 [Autumn, 1983]

Witcraft, or The Growth of English Leonard Cochran

VOL IX, No 1 [Summer, 1982]

Witty Dutch Neologisms Jacqueline Schaalje

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

Wizard Words: The Literary, Latin, and Lexical Origins of Harry Potter's Vocabulary Jessy Randall

VOL XXVI, No 2

Women on Language; Women in Language Helen W. Power

VOL XV, No 2 [Aytumn, 1984]

Women, Wife-men, and Sexist Bias Roger W. Wescott

Vol I, No 2

Word Chains in English

Vol I, No 1

Word Droppings Garland Cannon

VOL XV, No 1 [Summer, 1988]

Word Droppings Garland Cannon

VOL XVI, No 1 [Summer, 1989]

Word Law Dennis Baron

VOL XVI, No 1 [Summer, 1989]

Word Play the Media Way Barbara Hunt Lazerson

VOL XI, No 3 [Summer, 1984]

Word Tax Luisa Orza

VOL XXV, No 2

Word Watchers: Fitzedward Hall Richard W. Bailey

VOL XIX, No 3 [Winter, 1993]

Word Words Jon O. Newman

VOL XXIII, No 4 [Autumn 1998]

Wordplay Gary Egan

VOL XX, No 4 [Spring 1994]

Words Can't Begin To Describe What I'm Feeling David Shields

XXVII, No. 2 [Autumn 2003]

Words For Their Own Sake John Konrad Kern

VOL XXIV, No 3

Words Sites Online Michael Quinion

XXVII, No. 4 [Autumn 2002]

Words That Don't Look Right Richard Lederer

VOL XII, No 2 [Autumn, 1985]

Words That Sell Allison Whitehead

Vol XXVIII, No 4 [Early Winter 2003]

Words: The Stealth Weapon of War Howard Richler

XXVII, No. 3 [Summer 2002]

Wot's de rite spellin', den? Nigel J. Ross

VOL XXI, No 3 [Winter, 1995]

Wrenches in the Gorse and Bracken Bob Swift

VOL XVIII, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Writer's Blindness Philip Haldeman

VOL VI, No 4 [Spring 1980]

Writing Maketh an Exact Man William B. Ober

VOL XVIII, No 2 [Autumn 1991]

Writing the Hard Way Jonathan Bricklin

VOL XVI, No 2 [Autumn, 1989]

Writing the Spoken Word John F. Heinz

VOL XVIII, No 1 [Summer 1991]

X

Xmas, Yttrium, & Zwieback: Unusual Initial Pairs in English Paul Anthony Jones

Vol XXXI, No 4

Y

Yiddish for Fun and Profit Lillian Mermin Feinsilver

VOL X, No 2 [Autumn, 1983]

You Know What Allen Walker Read

Vol II, No 3 [December 1975]

You Said a Mouthful Richard Lederer

VOL IX, No 3 [Winter, 1983]

You Say Tomato... Craig Brown

VOL XVII, No 4 [Spring 1991]

You Say “Lieutenant,” I Say “Leftenant”: Linguistic Notes on the Canadian Unity Crisis Jeff Miller

VOL V, No 1 [May, 1987]

You Sucker! Participatory Humor Jessy Randall

Vol XXIX, No 3

You can have your cake and eat it R. Millar

VOL XXII, No 1 [Summer, 1995]

You've Got Game Gloria Rosenthal

VOL XXVIII, No 3 [Autumn 2003]

You've Got Game IV Gloria Rosenthal

Vol XXXI, No 3

“You know what I mean...” Laurence Urdang

VOL V, No 2 [September, 1978]

Z

Zap the BEMs! Onward, Space Cadets! Stephen E. Hirschberg

VOL XI, No 4 [Spring, 1989]