Verbatim

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Lexical property rights: trademarks in American dictionaries.
December 22, 2005

Getting bowzered in early America.
December 22, 2005

Phrenology and language.
December 22, 2005

On chatter.(Column)
December 22, 2005

Dirty Words.(Poem)
December 22, 2005

Dude, Katie! Your dress is so cute: why dude became an exclamation.
December 22, 2005

The Caribbean dichotomy.
December 22, 2005

Classical blather: trickster treats.(tricksters in classical literatur...
December 22, 2005

Grammar Lesson.(Poem)
December 22, 2005

Horribile dictu.(social class in the UK)(Column)
December 22, 2005

The hyperbolic contrast.(Critical essay)
December 22, 2005

Bibliographia.(Say What You Mean!)(Who's Whose)(The Wrong Word Diction...
December 22, 2005

Corrigenda.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2005

Checking in/checking out: hotel slang of the 1950s.
September 22, 2005

Corrigenda.(Correction notice)
September 22, 2005

Hunting the wayzgoose.
September 22, 2005

Classical blather: (S)wordplay.
September 22, 2005

Bibliographia.(Ambigrams)(Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words)(...
September 22, 2005

Epistolae.(Letter to the editor)
September 22, 2005

Miscellanea.
September 22, 2005

Conan the Grammarian.
September 22, 2005

Language felonies.
September 22, 2005

Ulsterisms for everyday use.
September 22, 2005

Ex Cathedra.
September 22, 2005

Fourteenth Century Orthography.(Poem)
September 22, 2005

Sic! Sic! Sic!(errors)(Brief article)
September 22, 2005

Lapsus linguae.(Poem)
September 22, 2005

In Chaucer's time ...: the liberating joy of do-it-yourself etymologie...
September 22, 2005

The passing game: the joys and challenges of fooling native speakers.
September 22, 2005

Bats.(Short story)
September 22, 2005

Epistola.(Brief article)
September 22, 2005

How to hug.
September 22, 2005

Don't kid the goldfish: a linguistic portrait of my mother.
September 22, 2005

Horribile dictu.
September 22, 2005

Ode to a clodhopper.
June 22, 2005

The Alphabet Is Killing Us.
June 22, 2005

What Do Poets Want?
June 22, 2005

Fan words.
June 22, 2005

One, two, three.(word games)
June 22, 2005

Miscellanea.
June 22, 2005

Playing Boggle with My Sister.(Poem)
June 22, 2005

Sic! Sic! Sic!
June 22, 2005

Brain injury and language.
June 22, 2005

Epistolae.(Brief Article)
June 22, 2005

The Simpsons: embiggening our language with cromulent words.
June 22, 2005

The corporatization of verbal communication processes.
June 22, 2005

Falsest of friends.(cognates, that are not)
June 22, 2005

Horribile dictu.(cliches)(Column)
June 22, 2005

A word or two in Spanglish.
June 22, 2005

Sex and the single noun.(grammatical gender)
June 22, 2005

High-scoring scrabble[TM] strings seeking definition.
June 22, 2005

Affiant Saith further nought.
June 22, 2005

Classical blather: Words of Power.
June 22, 2005

"Year of Languages" radio series available.(MISCELLANEA)
March 22, 2005

Journo's boffo lingo: the slang of Daily Variety.
March 22, 2005

Sic! Sic! Sic!
March 22, 2005

Ludus.
March 22, 2005

Epistolae.
March 22, 2005

Blurts.(Poem)
March 22, 2005

Ex cathedra.
March 22, 2005

Subversion by adverb.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005

Corrigenda/addenda.(Correction Notice)
March 22, 2005

Miscellanea.
March 22, 2005

Mongo no like legging: family expressions deserving wider recognition.
March 22, 2005

Confessions of a verbivore.
March 22, 2005

Emails to an etymologist.
March 22, 2005

Obiter dicta.(Lewis and Clark Lexicon of Discovery )(Brief Article)
March 22, 2005

Murder! She ejaculated.(Ngaio Marsh's novel 'When in Rome', filled wit...
March 22, 2005

How to Tawk like a New Yawker.
March 22, 2005

Who put the Nick in my name?
March 22, 2005

Horribile Dictu.(Column)
March 22, 2005

Classical blather: death's masks.(power of words)
March 22, 2005

As the word turns: brief lives, brief loves.
March 22, 2005

Such a stew about punning.(Illustration)
March 22, 2005

Untitled.
March 22, 2005

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