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Issues 176 to the penultimate issue 

Click the items in the right side of each table from Issue 110 to present to read them.

Issue 209

 Spotlight Nitrogen
Words to the Wise sterling, ponder, willy nilly, yahoo, The Old Bill
1/24/09
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Nelson is old enough to know the difference
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Glorious insults

 

Issue 208

 Spotlight How to speak Arabic - and not know it
Words to the Wise cool beans, Mass, scoop (journalism), out of pocket, yeehaw
10/30/06
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Robert has  some issues...er...problems
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock No one is above suspicion

 

Issue 207

 Spotlight Sensational Etymologies
Words to the Wise poodle, beagle, corgi, Pomeranian, mastiff
10/14/06
Curmudgeons' Corner Between her and you
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock "Engrish" from Thailand

 

Issue 206

 Spotlight Saints and days
Words to the Wise damn your eyes/the torpedoes, at sixes and sevens/nines, abigail, upshot
9/19/06
Curmudgeons' Corner Several Pet Peeves
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Things that make you say, "Hmmmm!"

 

Issue 205

 Spotlight The low-down on high tea
Words to the Wise hussy, puma/cougar/mountain lion, daftar, fixing
8/31/06
Curmudgeons' Corner Several Pet Peeves
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Things that make you say, "Hmmmm!"

 

Issue 204

 Spotlight Clouds
Words to the Wise bootylicious, ye, bouillon/bullion, riding the rail
3/15/06
Curmudgeons' Corner Back Off
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Restrooms and Physiology

 

Issue 203

 Spotlight Drawing (or Drawring, if you like!)
Words to the Wise ings, dumpling, pee, pecan
2/28/06
Curmudgeons' Corner Curmudgeon Malcolm Tent is almost hysterical over historical
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock New breeds of dog

 

Issue 202

 Spotlight The Danes
Words to the Wise the @ sign, sir, sign (singular), cob (steal)
2/14/06
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Lynn Nordhagen hates it when people pour...
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Head Start to Misspelling?

 

Issue 201

 Spotlight The Outdoors
Words to the Wise individual, The Who members' surnames, blog, mercaptan
1/30/06
Curmudgeons' Corner Curmudgeon Malcolm Tent gets it to a T
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock The MENSA Invitational?

 

Issue 200

 Spotlight Embrace Your Braces
Words to the Wise hybrid, mule, bush league, sage, bigot
1/15/06
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Terry Berg complains about enverbing nouns
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock What about the 22th and 23th floors?

 

Issue 199

 Spotlight Herbs and Spices
Words to the Wise fence, kid/kidding, human/man, pope
4/1/05
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Joseph Chiaravalloti notes that someone suffers from homophonophobia
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Wanna Get Fired?

 

Issue 198

 Spotlight Fruits of Summer
Words to the Wise nunnery, jaguar, yogurt, crank call, hominy
3/1/05
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Riflaum is hurtling over hurdles
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock The Annual Neologism Contest

 

Issue 197

 Spotlight Native American Peoples' Names
Words to the Wise cleave, swag/shwag/schwag, the letter z, repair (go), before
2/6/05
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Jim Ross is enormously tired of enormity
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Why People in Florida Lock their Doors

 

Issue 196

 Spotlight Pet Names
Words to the Wise trump, k, embarass, surname Sellers
1/10/05
Curmudgeons' Corner Curmudgeon Barb Dwyer is still alive and kicking: the verbs pore vs. pour
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Fall Flashback

 

Issue 195

 Spotlight Middle Earth (an encore presentation)
Words to the Wise (another encore presentation) bitch, volcano, pizza, kangaroo
1/10/04
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Mike P would like you to tend to be logical
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Ebay Has It All!

 

Issue 194

 Spotlight Literary Devices
Words to the Wise smidgen, abominable, to pine, hustle
1/10/04
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Daleen Coorts should of complained, and did
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Who ARE you for, then?

 

Issue 193

 Spotlight More Shaky Etymology
Words to the Wise shebang, in spades, coon's age, toolies
10/23/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Dean Moblo thinks he might as well complain about
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock A Momentous Oil Change

 

Issue 192

 Spotlight Streaming
Words to the Wise fallow (color), nouns as adjectives, say cheese, toile
10/9/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Guesmudgeon Jean Jacobi has NEVER been a jewelry store
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Non Campus Mentis

 

Issue 191

 Spotlight Phrases/Clichés that begin with C
Words to the Wise your goose is cooked, augur, kelly (oil drilling term), beat around the bush
9/23/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Malcolm Tent gives an example of what he's been talking about all along
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock The Phaomnneel Pweor of the Hmuan Mnid

 

Issue 190

 Spotlight Life in the 1500s Revisited
Words to the Wise fraught, jimmy, you have your work cut out for you, boss
9/11/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Dick Timberlake will zeroscape YOU if you don't pronounce xeriscape correctly!
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Good Eating

 

Issue 189

 Spotlight England
Words to the Wise pit, Totley, no holds barred, Moor
8/12/03
Curmudgeons' Corner This Guestmudgeon is a potentially dangerous pedant
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Mating on the House Floor?

 

Issue 188

 Spotlight California Placenames
Words to the Wise step-, Beijing, cold (illness), twiddle (your thumbs), worrywart
7/15/03
Curmudgeons' Corner A Guestmudgeon may show her might
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock How to get a ticket

 

Issue 187

 Spotlight Animal groups
Words to the Wise pup tent, poop deck, goggles, itch, pallbearer
7/2/03
Curmudgeons' Corner A Jeopardy Fan?
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Fun with Excision!

 

Issue 186

 Spotlight book
Words to the Wise the penny dropped, grabbling, thin as a rail, take a gander, quarter horse
6/17/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Frying beans twice?
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock The Perfect Computer and Software

 

Issue 185

 Spotlight swell words
Words to the Wise spider, corny, sham, ceremony, blonde
6/3/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Everyday Usage
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock The Cowboy's Ten Commandments

 

Issue 184

 Spotlight opera and manure, the facts at last
Words to the Wise cracket, bazooka, ornery, leeward, ticked off, digs
5/20/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Validation
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock That's Nice, Bacchus!

 

Issue 183

 Spotlight vets
Words to the Wise ass, widdershins, jacuzzi, jar, hoar-frost, hear a pin drop
5/6/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Loose usage
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock New Vocabulary

 

Issue 182

 Spotlight consonant shifts
Words to the Wise separate/apart, bulldog, acorn/oak, redskin
4/22/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Barb Dwyer is a friend of mine
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock The First Time's Always the Worst

 

Issue 181

 Spotlight cups, coops, hoops and heaps
Words to the Wise mullet (hairdo), Alabama, sorrow, villain, Parthian/parting shot
4/8/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Jake Cuttler isn't notorious - yet
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Comments on Iraq by Late Nighters

 

Issue 180

 Spotlight shocking, awful use of words
Words to the Wise harbinger, tea towel, holy mackerel, doc, frog
3/24/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Guestmudgeon Roland Bogush got out of the wrong side of the bed today
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Slow Children at Play

 

Issue 179

 Spotlight charge
Words to the Wise forgive, hail, propaganda, fly by night
3/10/03
Curmudgeons' Corner Barb wants to serve herself better
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock Hu's on First

 

Issue 178

 Spotlight plural diseases
Words to the Wise belay, gazebo, cotton to, bedraggled
12/9/02
Curmudgeons' Corner between Scylla to Charybdis
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock The Thermondynamics of Hell revisited

 

Issue 177

 Spotlight going out of our gourds
Words to the Wise casus belli, gone/fallen by the wayside, rendezvous, fire (sack)
11/17/02
Curmudgeons' Corner the I's don't have it
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock The Thermondynamics of Hell

 

Issue 176

 Spotlight The Zodiac
Words to the Wise shareware, where have all the _____ gone?, sweetbreads, shark
11/10/02
Curmudgeons' Corner Suicide bombers
Letters to the Editors various
Laughing Stock What happens when National Lampoon gets a hold of Desiderata

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