| Author |
Essay Title |
Date |
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Hugh Aaron
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Why Can't I Get Published?
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Feb. 2007
|
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Hugh Aaron
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A Do-it-Yourself Playwright
|
June 2007
|
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Ralph Abercrombie
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Sound Off: In Praise of the Fountain Pen
|
Jan. 2008
|
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Axel Albin and Amos Kenigsberg
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A Word for All Senses
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July 2004
|
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Verónica Albin
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On Libraries: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans
|
Sept. 2005
|
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Verónica Albin
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For the Benefit & Helpe of Ladies and Gentlewomen: A Historical Review of Dictionaries and Their Eccentricities
|
Nov. 2007
|
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jjoan ttaber altieri
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DisenYOUGUYSing American English
|
April 2003
|
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jjoan ttaber altieri
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The Absence Note
|
June 2003
|
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jjoan ttaber altieri
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Singular They: The Pronoun That Came in from the Cold
|
Sept. 2003
|
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Anonymous
|
How "How It Works" Works
|
Jan. 2007
|
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Maggie Balistreri
|
Like
|
Mar. 2001
|
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Maggie Balistreri
|
"Unfortunately" Equals "Um, Fortunately"
|
May 2001
|
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Maggie Balistreri
|
"The Relationship" Equals "You"; The Passive-Aggressive "Oh, Well"
|
Jan. 2003
|
|
Terry Ballard
|
Caught in a Spell
|
Jan. 2003
|
|
Martha Barnette
|
Word Hounds
|
May 2006
|
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Edwin Battistella
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Bad Grammar Isn't Always What You Think
|
Feb. 2004
|
|
Edwin Battistella
|
Renaming and Rebranding
|
Nov. 2004
|
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Edwin Battistella
|
The Pledge of Allegiance: A Grammarian's View
|
July 2005
|
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Edwin Battistella
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There's a Lot to Like
|
Aug. 2007
|
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Edwin Battistella
|
The Folk Art of Error
|
Mar. 2008
|
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Tina Bennett-Kastor
|
Our Democratic Language
|
Feb. 2000
|
|
Tina Bennett-Kastor
|
Bumper Bites
|
Nov. 2001
|
|
Tina Bennett-Kastor
|
Does Saying Make It So?
|
Mar. 2003
|
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Tina Bennett-Kastor
|
A Battle of Words
|
June 2005
|
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Tina Bennett-Kastor
|
What the Cat Drug In
|
Aug. 2006
|
|
Michael Berberich
|
Of Concordances, the Spider Guy, and Other Matters: A Rumination
|
Oct. 2004
|
|
Michael Berger
|
Up with the English Epicene
|
Dec. 2006
|
|
Pamela Black
|
What's a "Meta" For?
|
Mar. 2000
|
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Francis Blessington
|
To Hell with Language: The Language of Comedy
|
July 2003
|
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Francis Blessington
|
Finding the Fictions
|
Nov. 2005
|
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Marylaine Block
|
Grammar Matters
|
Feb. 2001
|
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Marylaine Block
|
Words to Be Wise
|
May 2001
|
|
Marylaine Block
|
The Game of the Name
|
Nov. 2001
|
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Marylaine Block
|
Change a Word, Change a World
|
Aug. 2002
|
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Marylaine Block
|
Talk to Me
|
Dec. 2002
|
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Marylaine Block
|
Telling It Slant
|
Oct. 2003
|
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Marylaine Block
|
The Wrong Words
|
Oct. 2004
|
|
Marylaine Block
|
Limited Success
|
May 2005
|
|
Bruce O. Boston
|
Rhetorical Abusage: Oxymorons and Pleonasms
|
April 2003
|
|
Bruce O. Boston
|
Nonce Words, Vogue Words, and Whatchamacallits
|
April 2004
|
|
Bruce O. Boston
|
Five Signposts on the Road to Better Usage
|
Aug. 2004
|
|
Robert Bové
|
TV Empathy
|
Dec. 2001
|
|
Peter Bowler
|
Book Excerpt: The Superior Person's Field Guide to Deceitful, Deceptive & Downright Dangerous Language
|
Dec. 2007
|
|
Kathryn Brenden
|
A Letter in Worst Words
|
Oct. 2007
|
|
Ken Bresler
|
Playing the Synonym Game
|
Apr. 2001
|
|
Ken Bresler
|
Myths and Takes on Writing Web Content
|
May 2002
|
|
Ken Bresler
|
Just Say Know
|
Jan. 2003
|
|
Ken Bresler
|
Depopulating Sentences and Writing in the Non-Person
|
June 2003
|
|
Ken Bresler
|
Choice Words
|
Nov. 2004
|
|
Ken Bresler
|
What Viz. Is
|
Nov. 2005
|
|
Adrian Brune
|
Newsworthy: Gay Terms Added to Dictionary in Canada
|
Sept. 2004
|
|
Ada Brunstein
|
Perilous Pronouns
|
Oct. 2005
|
|
Tim Buck
|
The Art of Conversation
|
Nov. 2001
|
|
Tim Buck
|
The Dangerous Pleasure of Reading
|
Feb. 2002
|
|
Julian Burnside
|
Black Holes
|
Aug. 2001
|
|
Julian Burnside
|
Nice Distinctions
|
Dec. 2001
|
|
Julian Burnside
|
Obscene Words
|
July 2002
|
|
Julian Burnside
|
Holy Wars
|
Dec. 2002
|
|
Julian Burnside
|
Fading Distinctions
|
May 2003
|
|
Julian Burnside
|
Harmless Drudges
|
Oct. 2003
|
|
Julian Burnside
|
Death Sentence
|
Jan. 2004
|
|
Julian Burnside
|
Odds and Ends
|
May 2004
|
|
Julian Burnside
|
Naughty Words
|
Feb. 2005
|
|
Julian Burnside
|
So
|
Jan. 2008
|
|
Julian Burnside
|
Mentor
|
April 2008
|
|
Kelly Cannon
|
Lawyers vs. Language
|
Oct. 2002
|
|
Kelly Cannon
|
Know Acceptions: Internet English Is Still English
|
Aug. 2004
|
|
Jose Carillo
|
The Deadly Game of Corporatese
|
Mar. 2005
|
|
Jose Carillo
|
The Great Gobbledygook-Generating Machine
|
Jan. 2006
|
|
David Carkeet
|
Titanic Blunders
|
Dec. 2000
|
|
David Carkeet
|
The Muse of Mopar
|
Mar. 2001
|
|
David Carkeet
|
Memo to Reviewers
|
July 2001
|
|
David Carkeet
|
How to Err in Italian
|
Mar. 2003
|
|
David Carkeet
|
Congratulations, Valetudinarian!
|
Sept. 2003
|
|
Richard Burnett Carter
|
The Grammar of Anthony Burgess's The Eve of Saint Venus
|
Dec. 2001
|
|
Richard Burnett Carter
|
The Melancholy of Anatomy
|
May 2002
|
|
Bill Casselman
|
An Etymology of the Word Farce
|
April 2004
|
|
Larra Clark
|
Newsworthy: Banned Books Week: September 23-30
|
Sept. 2006
|
|
Roy Peter Clark
|
Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
|
Dec. 2006
|
|
Valerie Collins
|
Words of a Feather
|
Mar. 2002
|
|
Valerie Collins
|
Yes, We Have No Bananas
|
Sept. 2002
|
|
Valerie Collins
|
Get Vivad!
|
Jan. 2003
|
|
Valerie Collins
|
The Hit-Your-Audience-in-the-Eye Guide to English
|
Feb. 2003
|
|
Valerie Collins
|
It Takes Two to Tango: Diary of an Alliteration Junkie
|
May 2003
|
|
Valerie Collins
|
Ain't Misbehavin'
|
Aug. 2003
|
|
Valerie Collins
|
Blog and Be Merry
|
Dec. 2003
|
|
Valerie Collins
|
Hootlessness
|
Mar. 2004
|
|
Valerie Collins
|
Ablaut Shmablaut
|
Aug. 2004
|
|
Valerie Collins
|
Abomistrosities
|
Dec. 2004
|
|
Valerie Collins
|
Cutting and Splicing
|
April 2005
|
|
Steve Cook
|
Writing Down to Readers
|
May 2001
|
|
Peter Corey
|
Grammar and Disputation
|
Jan. 2001
|
|
Peter Corey
|
How Linguistics Killed Grammar
|
Sept. 2001
|
|
Peter Corey
|
"Different From" Not "Different Than"
|
Jan. 2002
|
|
Peter Corey
|
rresponse tto jjoan ttaber altieri
|
Oct. 2003
|
|
Darren Crovitz
|
Hyphenology, or The Missing Link
|
June 2002
|
|
Darren Crovitz
|
The Secret Nature of Nicknames
|
Nov. 2002
|
|
Jamil Daher
|
Lexical Borrowing in Arabic and English
|
May 2003
|
|
Jeff Danziger
|
Urban Renewal English
|
Apr. 2001
|
|
Marshall Dean
|
Spoonerisms and Malapropisms
|
Apr. 2002
|
|
Marshall Dean
|
Train-of-Thought Writing
|
Feb. 2003
|
|
Marshall Dean
|
Everything's Cool, Whatever, or Like
|
Aug. 2007
|
|
Tony Donovan
|
Linguistic Chaos: English in the Gulf of Araby
|
Jan. 2003
|
|
Tony Donovan
|
Keep Foreign Languages out of the Classroom
|
May 2003
|
|
Richard Dowis
|
The Long and the Short of It
|
Dec. 2000
|
|
Richard Dowis
|
"Secrets" of the Pros
|
Apr. 2001
|
|
Donald L. Dyer
|
How Grammaticality Eludes: The Relationship Between Nonstandard and Evolving Language
|
Mar. 2006
|
|
Skip Eisiminger
|
Word Wise
|
June 2004
|
|
Skip Eisiminger
|
A Continual Allegory: Some Thoughts on Literal-Mindedness
|
Oct. 2004
|
|
Skip Eisiminger
|
When the Teacher's Wrong
|
Mar. 2005
|
|
Skip Eisiminger
|
Dropping Names
|
Sept. 2005
|
|
Skip Eisiminger
|
Tales from the Cup and Chaucer
|
Jan. 2006
|
|
Skip Eisiminger
|
The Emperor Is Naked! Or, Derrida Meets a New Critic
|
May 2006
|
|
Skip Eisiminger
|
The Long and Short of Brevity: Fact and Speculation
|
Sept. 2006
|
|
Skip Eisiminger
|
Facets of the Softball Diamond
|
Mar. 2007
|
|
Skip Eisiminger
|
The Consequences of a Word
|
Sept. 2007
|
|
Skip Eisiminger
|
Winning, Losing, and Playing the Game
|
Feb. 2008
|
|
Susan Elkin
|
A Bestiary of Adjectives
|
Sept. 2000
|
|
Susan Elkin
|
Flocks, Flights, Companies, and Coveys
|
Jan. 2001
|
|
Susan Elkin
|
Children Deserve Poetry
|
June 2001
|
|
Susan Elkin
|
Don't Throw It Away
|
Dec. 2001
|
|
Susan Elkin
|
King James Bible
|
Mar. 2002
|
|
Susan Elkin
|
Get 'em to Read Real Books
|
Oct. 2002
|
|
Susan Elkin
|
Give Them Greek
|
May 2003
|
|
Susan Elkin
|
Words, Words, Words
|
Nov. 2005
|
|
Charles Harrington Elster
|
Book Excerpt: The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete Opinionated Guide for the Careful Speaker
|
Mar. 2006
|
|
Terrie Ens
|
Words Can Harm Me: They Can Make Me Crazy!
|
Nov. 2000
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Bottle That Punaphor
|
July 2000
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
I'm Eppy, but Call Me Epstein
|
Aug. 2000
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
You Got Attitude?
|
Nov. 2000
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
The Game of the Name
|
Jan. 2001
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Going Without the Flow
|
Mar. 2001
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Mr. Epstein Regrets
|
June 2001
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Thanks for Sharing
|
Sept. 2001
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Upsizing
|
Jan. 2002
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Situation Comedy
|
Apr. 2002
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Author's Choice
|
June 2002
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Penman
|
Oct. 2002
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Sorry, Charles
|
Feb. 2003
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
No Opinion
|
July 2003
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Marginalized
|
Nov. 2003
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Quote-idian
|
Jan. 2004
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Is Reading Really at Risk?
|
Sept. 2004
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Blog, Bloggers, Blague
|
Jan. 2005
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
No Joke
|
Oct. 2005
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
The Perils of Prolificacy
|
April 2006
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Plagiary, It's Crawling All Over Me
|
Sept. 2006
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Cleaning Up My Act
|
Dec. 2006
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Don't Call Me Ishmael
|
Mar. 2007
|
|
Joseph Epstein
|
Excellent Choice
|
Nov. 2007
|
|
Phil Eubanks
|
The Metaphor Game
|
Jan. 2004
|
|
Rod L. Evans
|
Book Excerpt: The Gilded Tongue: Overly Eloquent Words for Everyday Things
|
Oct. 2006
|
|
Heinz Insu Fenkl
|
Heaven and Hello
|
Mar. 2002
|
|
Heinz Insu Fenkl
|
The Secret Alchemy of Doctor Seuss
|
July 2002
|
|
Heinz Insu Fenkl
|
The Mermaid
|
Jan. 2005
|
|
Edward Finegan
|
Practicing Prescriptivism Now and Then
|
Feb. 2001
|
|
Robert Hartwell Fiske
|
The Perfectibility of Words
|
May 2000
|
|
Robert Hartwell Fiske
|
The Decline of the Dictionary
|
Aug. 2003
|
|
Robert Hartwell Fiske
|
The Fiske Ranking of College Dictionaries
|
Jan. 2004
|
|
Robert Hartwell Fiske
|
Thirty Questions
|
April 2004
|
|
Robert Hartwell Fiske
|
Thirty-Five Questions
|
June 2004
|
|
Robert Hartwell Fiske
|
Thirty Questions
|
Sept. 2004
|
|
Robert Hartwell Fiske
|
Fifteen Questions
|
Dec. 2004
|
|
Robert Hartwell Fiske
|
Book Excerpt: The Dimwit's Dictionary
|
Sept. 2006
|
|
Robert Hartwell Fiske
|
A Few Rules of English-Language Use That, If Observed, Will Help Ensure Your Being Thought Well Of, Employable, and Even, Perhaps, Fit for Office — Part 1
|
Feb. 2007
|
|
Robert Hartwell Fiske
|
A Few Rules of English-Language Use That, If Observed, Will Help Ensure Your Being Thought Well Of, Employable, and Even, Perhaps, Fit for Office — Part 2
|
Mar. 2007
|
|
Robert Hartwell Fiske
|
A Few Rules of English-Language Use That, If Observed, Will Help Ensure Your Being Thought Well Of, Employable, and Even, Perhaps, Fit for Office — Part 3
|
Apr. 2007
|
|
Kitty Burns Florey
|
Book Excerpt: Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Sentence Diagramming
|
Nov. 2004
|
|
Kitty Burns Florey
|
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog
|
Dec. 2006
|
|
Judy Foreman
|
Doctors Cut with Medical Jargon
|
Feb. 2004
|
|
Adam Freedman
|
A Tangled Web
|
Aug. 2007
|
|
Adam Freedman
|
Book Excerpt: Plain vs Precise
|
Sept. 2007
|
|
Robert Fulton
|
But You Know What I Mean
|
Sept. 2001
|
|
Anu Garg
|
Discover the Theme; Animal Words
|
Feb. 2003
|
|
Bryan A. Garner
|
Making Peace in the Language Wars
|
Oct. 2003
|
|
Jen Gerson
|
Newsworthy: Adios, Apostrophe
|
June 2006
|
|
Amalia Gnanadesikan
|
Things They Told Me Not to Do
|
Dec. 2003
|
|
Amalia Gnanadesikan
|
The Archbishop's Pronoun
|
Mar. 2004
|
|
Richard Goodman
|
Book Excerpt: Some Things English Can't Do — And Shouldn't
|
Jan. 2008
|
|
Donna Gorrell
|
Conversations with a Copy Editor
|
Oct. 2006
|
|
Donna Gorrell
|
Truth Be Told: Creating a Nonfiction Story
|
Jan. 2007
|
|
Donna Gorrell
|
Sound Off: Just Pencils
|
Apr. 2007
|
|
Donna Gorrell
|
Go Figure!
|
July 2007
|
|
Donna Gorrell
|
Begin Your Sentences with and (but, or, nor, for, yet, so)
|
Dec. 2007
|
|
Donna Gorrell
|
Begin Your Sentences with because (since, while)
|
Dec. 2008
|
|
Donna Gorrell
|
On Traits and Truth
|
Mar. 2008
|
|
Thomas Gould
|
Dash It All! The Secret War for the Heart of HTML
|
Dec. 2006
|
|
Lucy Yarlott Graca
|
Sound Off: Things to Do with Friends: A Gothic Romance
|
Sept. 2007
|
|
Ellen Graf
|
Linguistic Strategies to Cure Illness
|
Nov. 2007
|
|
Ellen Graf
|
The Subsong of Birds
|
Feb. 2008
|
|
David Grambs
|
The Like Virus
|
Aug. 2001
|
|
Judy Gruen
|
Sound Off: My Brush with Starbucks Fame
|
Aug. 2007
|
|
Rohit Gupta
|
The Pen Is Mightier Than MSWord
|
Jan. 2003
|
|
John Guzlowski
|
Sound Off: All Holocausted Out: Thoughts on a Non-Jew's Using the Word Holocaust
|
Oct. 2007
|
|
Brenda Townsend Hall
|
The Root of the Matter
|
Oct. 2001
|
|
Brenda Townsend Hall
|
Negative Thoughts
|
Sept. 2002
|
|
Brenda Townsend Hall
|
United Through Proverbs
|
June 2003
|
|
Keith Hall
|
Food for Thought
|
June 2003
|
|
Keith Hall
|
Word Wizards of Oz
|
Dec. 2004
|
|
Mark Halpern
|
Why Linguists Are Not to Be Trusted on Language Usage
|
Sept. 2000
|
|
Mark Halpern
|
No Greater Misfortune: Debating with American Academics
|
Oct. 2000
|
|
Mark Halpern
|
Descriptivist vs. Prescriptivist
|
Dec. 2000
|
|
Mark Halpern
|
The End of Linguistics
|
July 2001
|
|
Mark Halpern
|
Two Bad Papers on Language Usage
|
Oct. 2001
|
|
Mark Halpern
|
The Eskimo Snow Vocabulary Debate
|
Feb. 2002
|
|
Mark Halpern
|
Myth-Bashing as a Substitute for Thought
|
May 2002
|
|
Mark Halpern
|
Book Excerpt: The Question of Change in Language
|
Feb. 2006
|
|
Mark Halpern
|
A Friendship in Letters
|
Nov. 2007
|
|
Mark Halpern
|
Culture and Society: How to Fight Malware: Personal Computers in the Age of Political Correctness
|
April 2008
|
|
Will Hamlin
|
Academic Diction: An Avoidable Poverty
|
Mar. 2008
|
|
Orin Hargraves
|
Who Owns English
|
June 2003
|
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