The Vocabula Review -- Vol. 3, No. 8

[Robert Hartwell Fiske]

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THE VOCABULA REVIEW

August 2001 -- Vol. 3, No. 8

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Robert Hartwell Fiske, Editor and Publisher, editor at vocabula.com

A society is generally as lax as its language.
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Coming in the September issue of The Vocabula Review: "How Linguistics Killed
Grammar" by Peter Corey

Peter Corey is the author of "Ten Grammatical Errors in the American
Heritage Dictionary." His "Grammar and Disputation" appeared in the January
2001 issue of The Vocabula Review.

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IN THIS ISSUE

The Like Virus -- David Grambs
Black Holes -- Julian Burnside
Words and People -- Richard Lederer
Two Poems -- Bert Stern
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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