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ISSUES
Issue 51 to Issue
75
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Spotlight |
metathesis |
| Words to the Wise |
sincere,
redneck, polecat, -ica, hospitality |
| 2/28/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
nicety |
| Letters
to the Editors |
The
path of kwent- to "path-"; snobbish vs. style; a glutinous
definition; dago revisited; |
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Spotlight |
animals
as food |
| Words to the Wise |
agglutinate,
tarnation, dago, gadget, -path/path- |
| 2/21/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
nuclear errors |
| Letters
to the Editors |
a week of praise |
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Spotlight |
eros |
| Words to the Wise |
page,
ardent, brouhaha and hubbub, nemesis, money grubber |
| 2/14/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
early |
| Letters
to the Editors |
more
on fishmongers, Life in the 1500s, barristers, and refutation |
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Spotlight |
fishmonger |
| Words to the Wise |
know
all men by these presents, bar, history, prize and price, signature |
| 2/7/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
refute |
| Letters
to the Editors |
kind
words; metheglin; urband legends and burials in England; a fortnight
of critical thinking |
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Spotlight |
honeymoon |
| Words to the Wise |
you're
welcome, grapefruit, how come, Spam, hypocrite |
| 1/31/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
supposably |
| Letters
to the Editors |
phonemes;
wala is a Tagalog word |
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Spotlight |
peacock |
| Words to the Wise |
duck,
metaphysics, limehouse, down the pike, turn over a new leaf |
| 1/24/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
wa-LA |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Lots
of "is, is that"; dream or mirth? |
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Spotlight |
dances |
| Words to the Wise |
dream,
smart, shy, debt, on the ball |
| 1/17/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
the reason is, is that... |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Eve
length, Hebrew names, more maniacs |
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Spotlight |
Jesus |
| Words to the Wise |
maniac,
glitch, taxi cab, guy, autumn |
| 1/10/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
happy New
Year's |
| Letters
to the Editors |
revisionist
history |
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Spotlight |
English words
from Arabic |
| Words to the Wise |
Limey,
widow's peak, sallyport, cahoots, hobnob |
| 1/03/00 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
definitely
not definately |
| Letters
to the Editors |
skinny-dipping
of the century; brogue shoes and brogue speech |
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Spotlight |
handicap |
| Words to the Wise |
spiffy,
prostitute, sheriff, skinny, black |
| 12/27/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
a very
special century |
| Letters
to the Editors |
more Welsh
stuff; the longest place name in Britain; Greek chi; alveolar and
bilabial |
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Spotlight |
holiday words |
| Words to the Wise |
chuckwagon
and chuckhole, shiver me timbers, castle and chaste, deer, Jew |
| 12/20/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Imput and
spayded |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Etymology and
entomology; a D.C. perspective; Etruscan has been deciphered; niger
and the EEOC; Icelandic surnames; Welsh names; it's not the end
of the millennium-yet |
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Spotlight |
fatidencies |
| Words to the Wise |
grape;
aisle, isle and island; tautology; snake oil, word |
| 12/13/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
various
examples of misuse/abuse |
| Letters
to the Editors |
words on
television; Norwegian surnames; squaw; more on surnames |
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Spotlight |
acronyms |
| Words to the Wise |
clean
as a whistle, entertainment, marble, luck, surname |
| 12/6/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
more about
acronyms |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Macs; where
to study etymology; title changes |
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Spotlight |
thanksgiving |
| Words to the Wise |
swashbuckler,
eavesdrop, secretary/secret, links, sarcasm |
| 11/22/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
lecterns and
podiums |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Latin
declensions; Russian roulette and critical thinking; rave
as an acronym |
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Spotlight |
Russian
roulette |
| Words to the Wise |
abracadabra,
exotic, bulldozer, cheese, rave |
| 11/15/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
millenia/schmillenia |
| Letters
to the Editors |
more on pluck
you; John Locke and tabula rasa; bring vs. take |
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Spotlight |
Lynch |
| Words to the Wise |
Amazon,
red tape, tabula rasa, rube, bit (1/8 dollar), skid row |
| 11/8/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Bring vs.
take |
| Letters
to the Editors |
-gry, -gry,
go away; monthly correction; egregious usage; Swedish cognates;
wallpaper paste from Korea |
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Spotlight |
Guitar |
| Words to the Wise |
catch
22, watershed, jackass, crowbar, place, double whammy |
| 11/1/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Egregious |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Latin
grammar, the important people |
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Spotlight |
Months |
| Words to the Wise |
caught
between the devil and the deep blue sea, made from scratch, sky,
dunning letter, waive, pardon my French |
| 10/25/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Enormity |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Bizarre
berserkers and paying our "dues" |
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Spotlight |
Hectic |
| Words to the Wise |
bizarre,
synergy, peccadillo, conundrum, wax [historical], ivy league |
| 10/19/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
About |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Drunk skunks, our German,
commas re-revisited, hobo histories, layout, praise, and barytons |
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Spotlight |
Some more
musical instruments |
| Words to the Wise |
mafia,
mosaic, testify, drunk as a skunk, preponderance |
| 10/11/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Arctic in the
attic |
| Letters
to the Editors |
More on hobo
and gaudy, our German, p's and q's, punctuation, and titans or not? |
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Spotlight |
Holding your
breath (and your nose) |
| Words to the Wise |
Golf,
Generation X, gaudy, run the gauntlet, flair |
| 10/4/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
A mere mirror |
| Letters
to the Editors |
More on the -gry
hoax and our new look |
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Spotlight |
Woodwind
words |
| Words to the Wise |
Ballpark
(figure), bogus, catawampus, chicken pox |
| 9/20/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Gourmet
delights |
| Letters
to the Editors |
New site/look
comments |
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Spotlight |
Etymology vs.
real meanings |
| Words to the Wise |
Mushroom,
metaphor, moist, mind your p's and q's |
| 9/20/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Pronouncing -phth- |
| Letters
to the Editors |
An OEDer and
boobs again! |
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Spotlight |
Continental names |
| Words to the Wise |
Dyed in the wool,
atlas, boob, elite, electricity |
| 9/13/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
Quantum leap |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Eck cetera, etc. |
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Spotlight |
Another internet hoax: hungry,
angry, and ? |
| Words to the Wise |
Geek, etymology,
abecedarium, memorize by heart, plague and ague |
| 8/23/99 |
| Curmudgeons'
Corner |
This is so different |
| Letters
to the Editors |
Spurious obscenity etymologies,
brogue and Mick |
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