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Issue 126 to 150

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

 

Issue 150

 Spotlight cutting, hacking and scraping
Words to the Wise charleyhorse, cloth, coined the phrase, spats, dashboard
3/22/02
Curmudgeons' Corner coining phrases
Letters to the Editors the N word; the N word again; orris root; more on The Women's Dictionary
Laughing Stock More groaners (puns) 

 

Issue 149

 Spotlight Middle Earth
Words to the Wise hymen/hymn, booger/bogy, alewife, happy hour, snafu
3/15/02
Curmudgeons' Corner palindrome or not?
Letters to the Editors puns continue; enjoying TOWFI; sitar and guitar; thank you
Laughing Stock A woman's dictionary 

 

Issue 148

 Spotlight The fundamentals
Words to the Wise America, shamus, radical, logphile/philologist, synecdoche
3/7/02
Curmudgeons' Corner What he said
Letters to the Editors crossing fingers; ID id; eurology; altar horns; corners; perch pun; punctuation, more IDs , words, in connection with
Laughing Stock very punny again!

 

Issue 147

 Spotlight horns, corns and corners
Words to the Wise Mrs., cross your fingers, divide and conquer, silkie
1/23/02
Curmudgeons' Corner those that
Letters to the Editors the; more au jus; various topics; Cretan/cretin; spicy; á la mode; euronating, definitions
Laughing Stock very punny! 

 

Issue 146

 Spotlight Dwellings
Words to the Wise bitch, volcano, pizza, kangaroo
1/16/02
Curmudgeons' Corner coulda been a contender
Letters to the Editors daemon's evolution; more au jus; more on rabbits; more misacronyms; golf again; more on peppers; huh?
Laughing Stock sounds increditable to us 

 

Issue 145

 Spotlight More Hot stuff
Words to the Wise take the Mickey, whipping boy, Welsh rarebit/rabbit, seven seas 
1/9/02
Curmudgeons' Corner on a <time> basis
Letters to the Editors hot words, giddy up; Gilbert and Sullivan; several points; misunderstood clichés; Aunty Curmudgeon; he's disorientated; golf again
 Laughing Stock Where excellence is not an option 

 

Issue 144

 Spotlight Hot stuff
Words to the Wise haw and gee, trauma
1/2/02
Curmudgeons' Corner and etcetera
Letters to the Editors intensive purposes, jigs; yogh; more on church; malapropisms; Old English reindeer; article abuse
Laughing Stock Camping in water 

 

Holiday Issue

 Spotlight Holiday Words (from a previous issue)
Words to the Wise rain check, pray/prayer, pagan, church, reindeer/caribou
12/19/01
Curmudgeons' Corner for all intensive purposes?
Letters to the Editors Tagalog, Tagalog two; Tagalog three; an old octopus revisited; Richardsnary; Wynn
Laughing Stock No parking, indeed! 

 

Issue 143

 Spotlight cant
Words to the Wise investment, consonant and vowel, -ber, get the hell out of Dodge
12/12/01
Curmudgeons' Corner flaunt vs. flount
Letters to the Editors corundum, Tagalog plurals; Scottish pronunciation; lost letters and Gaul; French/Welsh; more on Gaul; double laugh; Icelandic license plate; Websense makes sense; Russian in number
Laughing Stock Are they slow, or should we slow? 

 

Issue 142

 Spotlight lost letters
Words to the Wise pornography, Gaul, aa, quenelle
11/28/01
Curmudgeons' Corner lay and lie
Letters to the Editors Websense, Apostrophe Protection Society, Tagalog plurals; animated curmudgeon, red and mimimum?, bad syntax, Mother Goose in French (sort of), human and earth in Hebrew
Laughing Stock large women and manual automatic doors 

 

Issue 141

 Spotlight gemstones again
Words to the Wise called on the carpet, odds, sport, human
11/14/01
Curmudgeons' Corner who's at work
Letters to the Editors collective vs. plural nouns, translation, please, keeping up with the back issues
Laughing Stock how is that supposed to work?

 

Issue 140

 Spotlight gemstones
Words to the Wise red letter day, Farsi, wave, pickle
11/8/01
Curmudgeons' Corner more better
Letters to the Editors collective nouns, more on mondegreens, death and the sickle, "better" dictionary, they're just wrong
Laughing Stock but how could he fit in there?

 

Issue 139

 Spotlight evil
Words to the Wise goblin, cemetery, zombie, ectoplasm
10/31/01
Curmudgeons' Corner sentence adverbs
Letters to the Editors very punny, waffling about wlaffe, wl- pronunciantion, no, not more fonts!, spooling Miss Steaks, go slow and read it slowly, responses, more merry malapropisms, Arabic anthrax
Laughing Stock How does one close a waterfall?

 

Issue 138

 Spotlight wl...
Words to the Wise anthrax, afghan, coach, midnight oil
10/24/01
Curmudgeons' Corner Losing -ly
Letters to the Editors German bonza, curmudgeonly pride, renege spelling, bad or missing links, spell check verse, wl- words, malapropisms, Cantonese
Laughing Stock Well, which is it?

 

Issue 137

 Spotlight Topical Items
Words to the Wise renege/renegue, discombobulate, bonzer/bonza, midwife
10/17/01
Curmudgeons' Corner Jive for jibe, tact for tack, etc.
Letters to the Editors Notarikon in Hebrew, language links, problems with page two, cats and dogs, Hebrew and Persian, Aunty Curmudgeon, hats and cattle, Ali quotation, how to fix font problems, browser environment and back issue snags, wl- words, quadratic help, mnemonics and a joke
Laughing Stock Must've been a very long tendon

 

Issue 136

 Spotlight Arabs, Afghans, Muslims and Islan
Words to the Wise muggles, notarikon, roster, tilting at windmills, all fur, no nickers
10/3/01
Curmudgeons' Corner A regime of regimens
Letters to the Editors Peachy and more, more peaches, possessives, more data, Richard Lederer sez..., spelling stumpers, Boxing Day, more on font problems, infamous Isabella, metonym?, mistakes, curmudgeons and anti-curmudgeons,  we're ok
Laughing Stock How to give a pill to a cat

 

Issue 135

 Spotlight The West End of London, Dukes, and Eponyms
Words to the Wise bank holiday, contractions, just deserts, idiot, Eskimo
8/28/01
Curmudgeons' Corner The data are in
Letters to the Editors It's not genitive, ginger peachy keen, tera, zetta and yotta, TOWFI display fonts, tough ones to spell, I/me usage
Laughing Stock Now how many doughnuts is that?

 

Issue 134

 Spotlight Our Garden (again)
Words to the Wise stock still, petabyte/terabyte/exabyte, mortgage, minutes, wrong side of the tracks
8/15/01
Curmudgeons' Corner Me me me or I I I?
Letters to the Editors A rhetorical question, a font of fonts, refreshing the site, Lucy, Utah's seagulls, Soylent Green/Soilent Green, difficult to spell
Laughing Stock See water.  See water run!

 

Issue 133

 Spotlight Notes from our garden
Words to the Wise deep six, consulate/embassy, tapas, teenager, biscuit/bisquit
8/8/01
Curmudgeons' Corner Insured assurance
Letters to the Editors Back issue issue, logic vs. evidence, hell in a handbasket I, hell in a handbasket II, gruntle
Laughing Stock Sweeney Todd redux

 

Issue 132

 Spotlight On the Money
Words to the Wise earshot/hark/hearken, midget/dwarf, Suffolk Punch, monk, meander
8/1/01
Curmudgeons' Corner Looking forward
Letters to the Editors More Topica, begging rhetoric, our search engine, Dutch correction
Laughing Stock Proofreed your ads

 

Issue 131

 Spotlight Bad Etymologist!  No Biscuit!
Words to the Wise double dog dare, steward, g-string, (run) amok
7/25/01
Curmudgeons' Corner Beg the question
Letters to the Editors Redundant redundancy, shanghaied again, thanks, so punny, apostrophemania, Palm OS dictionaries
Laughing Stock Nobody cares about Mom?

 

Issue 130

 Spotlight English Ancestry (a repeat of a previous column)
Words to the Wise throw one's hat into the ring, mistletoe, Hip hip!  Hurray!, hold (down) the fort, blue blood
7/18/01
Curmudgeons' Corner Irritatingly redundant
Letters to the Editors Meanings vs. etymology, several comments, Kilkenny cats, Topica vs. Listbot, Old Testament child-rearing, jazz revisited
Laughing Stock The true meaning of words (?!)

 

Issue 129

 Spotlight Animation
Words to the Wise Manhattan, rebel, shanghai, daemon, cardinal
7/10/01
Curmudgeons' Corner Digitally recorded error
Letters to the Editors New mailing list, southern hemisphere readers unite!, Peter Pan an etymologist?, all monds, ah-monds, Anglo-centric views?, cats is cats, jewfish no more, Persian in Hebrew
Laughing Stock A w(h)ine joke

 

Issue 128

 Spotlight Cats
Words to the Wise caught red-handed, factotum, scrod, crayon, on tenterhooks
6/26/01
Curmudgeons' Corner An L of a time
Letters to the Editors Offensive Engrish?, more flies, Persian influence, uptalk, ichthyetymology, more eggs and plants
Laughing Stock The birth of a word

 

Issue 127

 Spotlight Nightmares, death and monsters
Words to the Wise jewfish, scoop, natty, fly (zipper), gestalt
6/19/01
Curmudgeons' Corner heighth?
Letters to the Editors eggplant in Hindi and German, more would, Texan for W, more for Macs, more on merkin, old oxenfree
Laughing Stock what happens when you use an online translator

 

Issue 126

 Spotlight Merkins, grimalkins, and Maid Marians
Words to the Wise attorney, joy, vice-/vise, aubergine, Mexico
6/12/01
Curmudgeons' Corner Guess what?
Letters to the Editors fahrt, book in Engrish, Getafix, dogleg, petard
Laughing Stock Ball removal

 

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