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26-28	June 2007 Readings/Article The language of war is killing SEE ALSO: Combatants and noncombatants (International law); Islamic countries; Mohammed, Khalid Shaikh; Language & Linguistics; Military interrogation; Qaida (Organization); September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; Terrorists; Views on war; War on Terrorism, 2001- PDF IMAGES
45	June 2000 Readings/Article The nutty promoters SEE ALSO: Broadcast advertising; Martin, Dean; Lewis, Jerry; Language & Linguistics; Motion pictures; Obscene words; Swearing; The caddy (Motion picture : 1953) PDF IMAGES
20	January 2000 Readings/Article Owme sweet owme SEE ALSO: Caribbean Americans; Housing; Language & Linguistics PDF IMAGES
26	December 1998 Readings/Article Balanced, objective gay-bashing SEE ALSO: Hate speech; Homophobia; Language & Linguistics; Newsweek (American periodical); Time (American periodical) PDF IMAGES
21	July 1998 Readings/Article Bringing the scumbags to light SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; New York times; Obscene words PDF IMAGES
32-33	October 1997 Readings/Article The language of lost history By Michael Chabon SEE ALSO: Weinreich, Beatrice; Conversation and phrase books; Jews; Language & Linguistics; Say it in Yiddish (Book); Weinreich, Uriel; Yiddish language PDF IMAGES
29-30	October 1996 Readings/Article Deliver us from lingo By Randall VanderMey SEE ALSO: Evangelicalism; Jargon; Language & Linguistics; Protestants PDF IMAGES
21-23	March 1996 Readings/Article Lost in translation SEE ALSO: Baseball players; Career as translator; Nomo, Hideo; Japanese language; Brown, Kent; Language & Linguistics; Translating into English; Translators PDF IMAGES
14	August 1994 Readings/Article Going too far in New Delhi SEE ALSO: Invective; Language & Linguistics PDF IMAGES
9-11	October 1993 Notebook/Article Washington phrase book By Lewis H. Lapham SEE ALSO: Government jargon; Language & Linguistics; 1993- PDF IMAGES
22	June 1993 Readings/Article Slang of the nation By Teresa Labov SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Slang PDF IMAGES
17	May 1993 Readings/Article The great American novel, spell-checked By Bruce Bair SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Orthography and spelling PDF IMAGES
38	February 1993 Readings/Article The nutty promoters SEE ALSO: Broadcast advertising; Martin, Dean; Lewis, Jerry; Language & Linguistics; Motion pictures; Obscene words; The caddy (Motion picture : 1953) PDF IMAGES
32	November 1992 Readings/Article How the West was spun SEE ALSO: Euphemism; Language & Linguistics PDF IMAGES
35	May 1992 Readings/Article Chickens of the sea SEE ALSO: Euphemism; Language & Linguistics; Orlando PDF IMAGES
36	November 1991 Readings/Article Harvard's new colors By Ellen Jennings SEE ALSO: Cambridge; Graffiti; Harvard University; Language & Linguistics; Recycling; Sanitary affairs; Waste paper PDF IMAGES
31-32	March 1990 Readings/Article Words to live by By Jean Said Makdisi SEE ALSO: Arabic language; Civil War, 1975-; Language & Linguistics; Lebanon; Terms and phrases PDF IMAGES
57	March 1989 Article A gangbanger's glossary By Léon Bing SEE ALSO: Gang members; Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.; Language & Linguistics; Los Angeles; Slang PDF IMAGES
22-23	October 1986 Readings/Article Schoolyard law By David Mamet SEE ALSO: Childhood and youth; Mamet, David; Language & Linguistics; Negotiation PDF IMAGES
72-73	January 1986 Article Dying argots: Last call for screechie, shandy, and the sneeze mob By Edward Hoagland SEE ALSO: Lewis, Arthur H.; Ballantine, Bill; Carnival (Book); Carnivals; Circus; Circus workers; Language & Linguistics; Loggers; Lumber trade; Pike, Robert E. (Robert Everding); Tall trees, tough men (Book); Wild tigers & tame fleas (Book) PDF IMAGES
29-30	September 1985 Readings/Article Opening lines By Thomas E. (Thomas Edward) Murray SEE ALSO: Bars (Drinking establishments); Dating (Social customs); Language & Linguistics; Single people PDF IMAGES
31	April 1985 Readings/Article At the Washington Post By Benjamin C. Bradlee SEE ALSO: Journalistic ethics; Language & Linguistics; Washington Post (American newspaper) PDF IMAGES
31	April 1985 Readings/Article At Penthouse SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Swearing PDF IMAGES
34	August 1984 Readings/Article Gang slang By Columbus B. Hopper and Johnny Moore SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Motorcycle gangs PDF IMAGES
28-34	August 1958 Article New York's gay old lady: Whatever is happening to the Times? By Ben Rathbun SEE ALSO: Sulzberger, Arthur Hays; Career as New York times publisher; Adams, Frank; Language & Linguistics; Berger, Meyer; New York times; Newspaper employees; Portraits; Rogers, Ray; Sections, columns, etc. PDF IMAGES
487	April 1945 Personal and otherwise/Article Stalin's Basic English By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: Stalin, Joseph; Language & Linguistics; Yalta Conference (1945) PDF IMAGES
397-405	September 1941 Article An experiment in English By Julien Green SEE ALSO: Bilingualism; French speakers; Green, Julien; Language & Linguistics PDF IMAGES
518	September 1935 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Usage PDF IMAGES
388	August 1935 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Meticulous (The word); Usage PDF IMAGES
260	July 1935 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Usage PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 774	May 1935 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Language & Linguistics; Meticulous (The word); Slang; Usage PDF IMAGES
646	April 1935 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Newspapers; Usage PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 774	November 1934 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Usage PDF IMAGES
390	August 1934 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Usage PDF IMAGES
136	June 1934 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Usage PDF IMAGES
638-640	April 1934 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Elmer Holmes Davis and Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Orthography and spelling PDF IMAGES
252-254	January 1934 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Provincialisms; Usage PDF IMAGES
644-646	April 1933 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Usage PDF IMAGES
518	March 1933 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Usage PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 262	January 1933 Personal and otherwise/Article Index Expurgatorius By Lee Foster Hartman SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Usage PDF IMAGES
507-508	September 1932 The lion's mouth/Article If literary critics wrote like music critics By Ernest Augustus Boyd SEE ALSO: Criticism; Language & Linguistics; Music; Music critics PDF IMAGES
245-247	July 1932 The lion's mouth/Article The which of and/or By B.K. (Bernard Keble) Sandwell SEE ALSO: Corporate lawyers; Language & Linguistics PDF IMAGES
121-123	December 1930 The lion's mouth/Article Opus four, number seven By Robert Palfrey Utter SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Music critics PDF IMAGES
529-530	March 1922 The lion's mouth/Article The university tongue By Althea Bass SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Slang PDF IMAGES
255-257	January 1922 The lion's mouth/Article Newspaperese By Frederick Lewis Allen SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Language & Linguistics PDF IMAGES
436-445	August 1915 Article In Shakespeare's America By William Aspenwall Bradley SEE ALSO: Dialects; Combs, Josiah Henry; Language & Linguistics; Mountain whites (Southern States); The Kentucky highlanders (Book); Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
252-256	January 1895 Article Shakespeare's Americanisms By Henry Cabot Lodge SEE ALSO: Americanisms; Etymology; Foreign public opinion, English; Language & Linguistics; Shakespeare, William PDF IMAGES
962-964	May 1888 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Jargon; Language & Linguistics; Views on language; Bryant, William Cullen PDF IMAGES
485	August 1887 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Alien labor; Language & Linguistics PDF IMAGES
321-322	July 1886 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Language & Linguistics; Press and politics PDF IMAGES
317-318	July 1877 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Errata; Errors of usage; Language & Linguistics; Newspapers PDF IMAGES
739-740	October 1874 Editor's easy chair/Article Editor's easy chair By George William Curtis SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Language & Linguistics; Swearing PDF IMAGES
266-268	July 1863 Article Sign-language SEE ALSO: Children, Deaf; Deaf; Language & Linguistics; Sign language PDF IMAGES
568	March 1855 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Diplomacy; Language & Linguistics; Wotton, Henry, Sir; Views on diplomacy PDF IMAGES
709	April 1853 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Law PDF IMAGES

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Literary notes/Review

Literary notes

By Laurence Hutton

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Dec 2003	Number of times Democratic presidential candidates used the word “jobs” in their first four debates after Labor Day: 111	Harper's Index Source: National Democratic Committee transcripts/Congressional Black Caucus transcript
Dec 2003	Chances that a participant in California’s September 24 gubernatorial debate grew up speaking English at home: 2 in 5	Harper's Index Source: Arianna Huffington (Santa Monica, Calif.)/Office of the Lt. Governor of California (Sacramento, Calif.)/Camejo for Governor (Oakland)/Office of Senator Tom McClintock (Sacramento, Calif.)/Californians for Schwarzenegger (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Nov 2003	First year in which the definition of “turkey” in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary went beyond fowl: 1949	Harper's Index Source: Merriam-Webster, Inc. (Springfield, Mass.)
Sep 2003	Number of paragraphs devoted to global warming in the EPA's 600-page "Draft Report on the Environment" of 2003: 1	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
May 2003	Number of words that the New York Times has devoted to February's shuttle accident per resulting death: 28,500	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
May 2003	Number of words that the Times devoted to 1998's U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa per resulting death: 163	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Apr 2003	Ratio of the number of words in the U.S. income-tax code today to the number in 1955: 6:1	Harper's Index Source: Tax Foundation (Washington)
Mar 2003	Percentage of Shakespeare's sonnets that contain at least one economic metaphor: 30	Harper's Index Source: Neal Dolan, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Aug 2002	Ratio of words the New York Times devoted to Stephen Jay Gould's obituary to those it spent on John Gotti's: 4:7	Harper's Index Source: Harper's research
Feb 2002	Year in which "idiot," "fool," and "nitwit" were removed from Microsoft Word's thesaurus: 2000	Harper's Index Source: Microsoft Corporation (Bellevue, Wash.)
Jan 2002	Rank of "serendipity" among words most often queried on Cambridge Dictionaries Online last October: 1	Harper's Index Source: Cambridge Dictionaries Online (Cambridge, U.K.)
Jul 1998	Number of words in the 1999 Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary whose “offensive” designation will be italicized: 200	Harper's Index Source: Merriam-Webster Inc. (Springfield, Mass.)

January 5, 2008	The American Dialect Society voted “subprime” the word of the year.	Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke Source: CNN.com
April 16, 2007	Britain banned the phrase “war on terror.”	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: Sky News
June 2, 2006	A woman married a cobra in the Indian state of Orissa. “Though snakes cannot speak or understand,” said the bride, “we communicate in a peculiar way.”	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Breitbart
May 18, 2006	The Senate passed a bill that would make English the national language.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Senate
April 26, 2006	After 15,000 tries a California scientist was able to teach starlings some grammar.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
April 13, 2006	Some Iraqis were changing their names to avoid being identified as either Sunni or Shiite. “[I] don't want my children to die,” said the Shiite father of Ali, Hassan, and Fatima, “just because of their names.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters via Yahoo! News
March 23, 2006	American researchers found that whale songs have a hierarchical structure, but there is no evidence that whales can discuss distinct or abstract objects.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: New Scientist
November 25, 2005	A Vermont teacher was in trouble for testing students with liberal vocabulary questions. “I wish Bush,” read one question, “would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring him Republican votes.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Boston.com
August 29, 2005	Supreme Court nominee John Roberts was revealed to be a strict grammarian.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The New York Times
June 20, 2005	British potato farmers held protests against the Oxford English Dictionary; they were offended by the term “couch potato.”	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Guardian
February 19, 2005	Two former caretakers of Koko, the gorilla that can speak in sign language, sued for harassment. The caretakers claim they were pressured into exposing their breasts to satisfy Koko's nipple fetish.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Guardian
November 21, 2003	President Bush was asked to comment on the contradiction between "all [his] talk of freedom, justice and tolerance" and the treatment of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. "Justice is being done," he replied. "These are illegal noncombatants."	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: New York Times
August 1, 2003	President Bush blamed the weakness of the economy on "the drumbeat to war," which he attributed in turn to the news media. "Remember on our TV screens — I'm not suggesting which network did this — but it said, 'March to War,' every day from last summer until the spring," Bush said. "'March to War, March to War.' That's not a very conducive environment for people to take risk, when they hear 'March to War' all the time."	Weekly Review By Bill Wasik Source: Undernews
March 18, 2003	The Islamic Cultural Center of Dublin, Ireland, announced that it will oversee the translation of the Koran into Gaelic.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge

799	April 1878 Editor's drawer/Poem Legal tender SEE ALSO: Language & Linguistics; Law PDF IMAGES

19	July 1987 Readings/Graphs and Charts Parse one for the Gipper SEE ALSO: Charts, diagrams, etc.; Grammar; Iran-Contra Affair, 1985-1990; Language & Linguistics; Quotations; Reagan, Ronald PDF IMAGES

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