Dictionaries

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39-58	April 2001 Article Tense present: Democracy, English, and the wars over usage By David Foster Wallace SEE ALSO: A dictionary of modern American usage (Book); A dictionary of modern English usage (Book); Garner, Bryan A.; Dictionaries; Gilman, E.W.; Partridge, Eric; Errors of usage; Fowler, H.W. (Henry Watson); Lexicography; Gove, Philip Babcock; Steven Pinker; The language instinct: how the mind creates language (Book); Usage; Usage and abusage: a guide to good English (Book); Webster's dictionary of English usage (Book); Webster's third new international dictionary of the English language (Book) PDF IMAGES
46	June 2000 Readings/Article Word perfect By Howard Rheingold SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Translating and interpreting PDF IMAGES
28	February 2000 Readings/Article Quit avramizing, you squirtus SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; New words PDF IMAGES
48-49	November 1998 Article Let them eat nutri-cake: Merriam-Webster thinks our “biosolids” don't stink By Sheldon Rampton SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Sewage sludge PDF IMAGES
36	December 1991 Readings/Article Instant classics SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Latin language PDF IMAGES
30	May 1985 Readings/Article Terms of art By Stephen Rosenthal SEE ALSO: Art criticism; Art, Modern; Dictionaries PDF IMAGES
93-95	November 1970 Article A dictionary for the disenchanted By Bernard Rosenberg SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Social movements; Words, New PDF IMAGES
83-87	October 1968 Article The joys of Yiddish By Leo Calvin Rosten SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Jews; Yiddish language PDF IMAGES
49-54	September 1959 Article Dictionaries: Our language right or wrong By Felicia Lamport SEE ALSO: Career in lexicography; Dictionaries; Etymology; Lexicographers; Trench, Richard Chenevix PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 6-8	October 1947 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Flowers; Folklore PDF IMAGES
544-548	April 1937 Article Who are the American immortals? By Dumas Malone SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Fame PDF IMAGES
103-110	June 1914 Article The first dictionary of Americanisms By Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury SEE ALSO: Americanisms; Dictionaries; Pickering, John; Knowledge—Americanisms; Language purism; Usage PDF IMAGES
261-268	July 1903 Article The standard of pronunciation in English ([first paper]) By Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Pronunciation; Standardization PDF IMAGES
439-444	February 1890 Article A majestic literary fossil By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: A medicinal dictionary; including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs (Book); Dictionaries; Homeopathic physicians; Homeopathy; Medicine; Quacks and quackery; James, R. (Robert) PDF IMAGES

72-76	June 1981 Books/Review Orpheus in academe: Music's new lexicon By Leon Botstein SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Music; Sadie, Stanley; The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians (Book) PDF IMAGES
983	May 1897 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Wood, Katherine Bontecou; Quotations for occasions (Book) PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 653-654	March 1894 Literary notes/Review Literary notes By Laurence Hutton SEE ALSO: Dictionaries; Everybody's guide to music (Book); Booth, Josiah; Music PDF IMAGES

AUGUST 2008

THE WRECKING CREW
How a Gang of Right-Wing Con Men Destroyed Washington and Made a Killing
By Thomas Frank

THE MANDARINS
American Foreign Policy, Brought to You by China
By Ken Silverstein

JACK
A story by Marilynne Robinson

Also: WILLIAM H. GASS on Henry James