Vocabula: It's No Verbatim

[Robert Hartwell Fiske]

The September issue of The Vocabula Review (online Sept. 25) will be more 
than 35,000 words long. Here is the table of contents: 

Dropping Names — Skip Eisiminger 
A Tense Time with Verbs — Richard Lederer 
Getting Nicked by Nicknames — David Isaacson 
Kicked to the Verb — Mark Peters 
Interview: On Libraries: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans — Verónica Albin 
Two Poems — Pen Pearson 
The Elder Statesman: Let's Build a Poem — Clark Elder Morrow 
Shibboleths: Crossing the Jordan: Four Meditations on Usage — John Kilgore 
Postcards from Babel: Words Are Not Enough — Amalia Gnanadesikan 
Bethumped with Words: Hysteria: The Just Death of a Medical Word — Bill 
Casselman 
Harrison's Corner: Oy-weh! Days — Carey Harrison 
Grumbling About Grammar 
Elegant English 
On Dimwitticisms 
Clues to Concise Writing 
Scarcely Used Words 
On the Bookshelf 
The Vocabula Quiz 


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