In the December issue of The Vocabula Review
Robert Hartwell Fiske
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In the December issue of The Vocabula Review
Now online: www.vocabula.com
Organ Solo: Masturbation Words -- Mark Morton
Math and Meaning -- Brian Kimberling
Things They Told Me Not to Do -- Amalia Gnanadesikan
Satire: Tool of the Surgeon -- Jim Kittle
The Abdominal Snowman -- Richard Lederer
Sound Off: Spell, Memory! -- Clifton Raphael
The Elder Statesman: Child's Play with Words -- Clark Elder Morrow
The Last Word: Too Wretched for Words -- Chris Orlet
Love Your English: Blog and Be Merry -- Valerie Collins
Grumbling About Grammar
Elegant English
On Dimwitticisms
Clues to Concise Writing
Scarcely Used Words
Oddments and Miscellanea
On the Bookshelf
Robert Hartwell Fiske
Editor and Publisher
The Vocabula Review
www.vocabula.com
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Five by Fiske: The five essays included in this volume are as follows:
"The Decline of the Dictionary"; "The Perfectibility of Words" and
"The Imperfectibility of People," chapters 1 and 2 of The Dictionary
of Concise Writing; "Expressions That Dull Our Reason and Dim Our
Insight" and "Writing That Demands to Be Read Aloud, Speech That
Calls to Be Captured in Print," chapters 1 and 2 of The Dimwit's Dictionary.
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