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Issue 100

Spotlight wee weighs of weight
Words to the Wise hanky-panky and hokey-pokey, trot line, post haste, pompous, three sheets to the wind
9/11/00
Curmudgeons' Corner US spelling
Letters to the Editors More children's rhymes, hosey, Agent 99, braziers, sphagnum moss, St. Ambrose, heraldry, 
Laughing Stock "No Man is an Ireland" - political boners

 

Issue 99

Spotlight swamp things
Words to the Wise crony, bumbershoot, spank, bimbo, English from Basque
8/28/00
Curmudgeons' Corner Nutritious vs. nutritional and others
Letters to the Editors Sexual slang in music, punny readers, sailing details, Shakespeare's jacks, more dibs synonyms, commas revisited
Laughing Stock Dining in style

 

Issue 98

Spotlight the word-of-all-trades part II
Words to the Wise dosh, creole, fair to middlin', squid, c*nt
8/21/00
Curmudgeons' Corner Growing a minimum horn
Letters to the Editors 1500s is 16th century, commas, bagging, meddlin' in middlin', jackets are old, jacks, and eight a's!
Laughing Stock Spam from Russia with Love

 

Issue 97

Spotlight the word-of-all-trades
Words to the Wise humongous, soda, dibbs, fugue, bees' knees
8/14/00
Curmudgeons' Corner from between
Letters to the Editors You say potato, fuzzy wuzzy, language gaffes, oronyms
Laughing Stock Re-re-re-translations

 

Issue 96

Spotlight Mother of all tongues
Words to the Wise revamp, library, colony, sorcerer, ex
8/7/00
Curmudgeons' Corner wherefore
Letters to the Editors English pronuciation, oronyms
Laughing Stock Spam from Russia with Love

 

Issue 95

Spotlight Edible words
Words to the Wise curmudgeon, fix, hootenanny, soul, milquetoast
7/31/00
Curmudgeons' Corner crescendo
Letters to the Editors virgin, plurals, high tea, Lithuanian, injuries, Pali
Laughing Stock English as she are spoke

 

Issue 94

Spotlight The crippled creep
Words to the Wise surgery/chirurgery, supper/dinner, dog days, washer, mischievous
7/24/00
Curmudgeons' Corner prepositions
Letters to the Editors virgin, more strange English, sexual slang, plurals
Laughing Stock Children's books

 

Issue 93

Spotlight English Ancestry Part II
Words to the Wise fork, pew, screaming meemies, preterist, troilism
7/17/00
Curmudgeons' Corner depluralization
Letters to the Editors honky, poont*ng, noise words, virgin
Laughing Stock English is a stupid language

 

Issue 92

Spotlight English ancestry
Words to the Wise siege, fell swoop, star (person), virgin, right track, poont*ng
7/10/00
Curmudgeons' Corner noise words
Letters to the Editors more Dutch, long lost friends, clapping, honky
Laughing Stock steamed children

 

Issue 91

Spotlight veg-edibles part II
Words to the Wise loagy, sublime, clap, honky, crestfallen
6/19/00
Curmudgeons' Corner plural mispronunciation
Letters to the Editors more on product labels, belladonna returns, laughed so hard he flooded!
Laughing Stock George W. Bush, in his own words

 

Issue 90

Spotlight veg-edibles
Words to the Wise thumb, eclipse, vitamin, to rare, scouse
6/19/00
Curmudgeons' Corner convincing and persuasive
Letters to the Editors more on product labels, to know you is to know you, Persian, not Arabic!, more on Azazel, it's a piece of cake, a name for the unnamed, hacking the etymology of hacker
Laughing Stock Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn

 

Issue 89

Spotlight wise acres
Words to the Wise nadir, intact, panic, piece of cake, flea market
6/5/00
Curmudgeons' Corner the unnamed pet peeve
Letters to the Editors ollie ollie oxen free, Egypt, sending TOWFI to a friend
Laughing Stock Instruction (or is that DEstruction?) labels

 

Issue 88

Spotlight a little knowledge
Words to the Wise chat, mall, slavery
5/30/00
Curmudgeons' Corner role models
Letters to the Editors goats (Azazel), oxen (ollie ollie oxen free), mornings, Japanese, a fool's cap

 

Issue 87

Spotlight minced oaths
Words to the Wise get one's goat, moonshine, naked as a jaybird, nihilism, ollie ollie oxen free, foolscap, Krishna, in the black/red
5/22/00
Curmudgeons' Corner hopefully it will not be momentarily
Letters to the Editors plural and not so plural possessive, yesterday in The Netherlands, back issues formula, reaching Indians, a suggested link

 

Issue 86

Spotlight Japanese words in English
Words to the Wise Aryan, noodle (food), benchmark, doozy, yesterday
5/15/00
Curmudgeons' Corner feral insurance companies
Letters to the Editors sesquipedalianism, it's in the roasting, so is one Jones a Jone?, Surdez you jest

 

Issue 85

Spotlight beer
Words to the Wise nag, (bill of) lading, cobbler, nit, jingoism
5/8/00
Curmudgeons' Corner epicentrism
Letters to the Editors brine whine, a bitter taste, a German churl, lemoned water, in-store free-for-all, quanta, reusing absent items, corponyms, language anarchy

 

Issue 84

Spotlight blood-sucking parasites
Words to the Wise ectoplasm, quay, heinous, quirk, churlish
5/1/00
Curmudgeons' Corner bitter words
Letters to the Editors more bunnies, more quantum leaps, whither the sticky wicket?, Indiastan, an edible noggin, it's Odin Tew you

 

Issue 83

Spotlight promotional materials
Words to the Wise Indian, deadbeat, noodle, destiny, toilette
4/24/00
Curmudgeons' Corner close to the edge
Letters to the Editors A disgruntled anti-commercialite, write about Dutch wife and get chastised re gender!, voilą - a viola, down on the Welsh

 

Issue 82

Spotlight Holy Spirit
Words to the Wise due south, sticky wicket, wet nurse, fantastic, podzol and chernozem
4/17/00
Curmudgeons' Corner Realty is reality
Letters to the Editors British pronunciation, more rabbits, French letters and cor anglaise, we're almost always right, and double Dutch alumni

 

Issue 81

Spotlight the Easter Bunny
Words to the Wise asymptote, first/ second/third, [dog] pound, shepherd, poverty
4/10/00
Curmudgeons' Corner American as apple pie
Letters to the Editors Dutch terms, cricket, grim, and foundering citizens

 

Issue 80

Spotlight those darned foreigners
Words to the Wise fusion and fission, nigh/near/next, along and belong, feudal, jewelry
4/3/00
Curmudgeons' Corner light years away
Letters to the Editors grim reaper returns, revisiting the ivory tower, the etymology of Sahara, and comments on city words

 

Issue 79

Spotlight city words
Words to the Wise brawl, puce, ivory tower, butt (heads), virtually
3/27/00
Curmudgeons' Corner associate
Letters to the Editors alfa?, more dudes, more African words, don't knock La Brea Tar Pits, a NASAism, redundancies return, the grim truth about the Grim Reaper, gorilla girls

 

Issue 78

Spotlight African words, part 2
Words to the Wise agent, hearse and rehearse, Patagonia, ruthless, Grim Reaper
3/20/00
Curmudgeons' Corner literally
Letters to the Editors Tenses, phonetic alphabet, desert islands, more redundancies 

 

Issue 77

Spotlight African words, part 1
Words to the Wise stroke, a bone to pick, roger and wilco, cold feet, Teutonic
3/13/00
Curmudgeons' Corner can vs. may
Letters to the Editors Cowboy slang, more redundancies, dories, Indonesian words, Thruber, and an old issue

 

Issue 76

Spotlight some phrases
Words to the Wise ream (of paper), blue chip (stocks), dude, cowlick, hunky dory
3/6/00
Curmudgeons' Corner rice paddies
Letters to the Editors British hospitality; African roots; Diego clarification; spurious dago origin; thanks from Korea; more on waxy derivations

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