Barbara Wallraff

WORDS WE LOVE, WORDS WE HATE.(Unwind)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/17/2009; 1021 words; ...The sound of it goes nicely with the idea," says Barbara Wallraff, author of the syndicated "Word Court" column...with horrible meanings. No one loves the word war." Wallraff declines to give her favorite words, saying doing...

Strunk And White's Venerable Writing Guide Is 50
NPR Morning Edition; 4/16/2009; 792 words; ...something of a word bible. Barbara Wallraff, who writes about language...of its writing rules. Ms. BARBARA WALLRAFF (Author): There's a certain...Soundbite of music) MONTAGNE: Barbara Wallraff is the author of "Word Fugitives...

FEEDBACK.(Opinion)(Letter to the editor)(Column)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 3/15/2009; 1036 words; ...dumbing down" of America. Shame on you! You should know better. William Buckley's book, "The Right Word," or Barbara Wallraff's "Word Court" might be useful as references. Tsk! Tsk! Curtis Finney, professor emeritus, SUNY Potsdam...

hopefully
The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus; 1/27/2009; 765 words; ...yet. I only hope I won't have to concede that it is until I’m an old, old woman.” (Barbara Wallraff, Word Court ; 2000.) Fourth, though the controversy swirling around this word has subsided, any use of it is...

"Bakku-shan" and Goethe's Faust.(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Word Ways; 11/1/2008; 1789 words; ...2008 issue of Word Ways, Philip Cohen reviews two books: (1) Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words by Barbara Wallraff (HarperCollins 2006), and (2) The Meaning of Tingo and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the Worm by Adam...