The Vocabula Review -- Vol. 3, No. 10

[Robert Hartwell Fiske]

The October issue of The Vocabula Review (TVR) is now online at
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THE VOCABULA REVIEW

October 2001 -- Vol. 3, No. 10

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A society is generally as lax as its language.
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Coming in the November issue of The Vocabula Review: "The Game of the Name"
by Marylaine Block

Marylaine Block has been an English teacher, a librarian, and a freelance
writer. She also wrote a weekly column for Fox News Online titled "Observing
US."

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IN THIS ISSUE

Empowering or Cowering -- David R. Williams
Two Bad Papers on Language Usage -- Mark Halpern
The Root of the Matter -- Brenda Townsend Hall
The Odyssey of the Arabic Language -- Habeeb Salloum
Been There, Done That -- David Isaacson
Grumbling About Grammar
Elegant English
On Dimwitticisms
Clues to Concise Writing
Scarcely Used Words
Oddments and Miscellanea
On the Bookshelf
Letters to the Editor

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Robert Hartwell Fiske

Editor and Publisher
The Vocabula Review
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