BACK
ISSUES
Issue 76 to Issue
100
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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