by VERBATIM Editor | New Issues, News, Table of Contents
Vol. 32 No. 1 is making its way to the printer tomorrow; check out the table of contents for the new issue: Are Prepositions Necessary? by Rosemarie OstlerHanky-Panky, Hugger-Mugger, and Other Reduplicative Rhyming Compounds, by Amy Shuffelton and Jessy RandallThe...
by VERBATIM Editor | Back Articles, New Issues, News
We had some more requests for back articles this week, so two more are available to read online: Preposition Pollution, by Barbara DuBois, and Up and Down to You, by John Musgrave. An easy way to see the few articles we have available in html is to check out the Table...
by VERBATIM Editor | Back Articles, News
[photo by mharrsch, of an ivory (not a quartz) pyx] Interested in holo-alphabetic sentences? Think you would be, but aren’t sure what they are? Then you might want to check out Russell Slocum’s article from Vol. II/4, newly digital here....
by VERBATIM Editor | Back Articles, News
A subscriber from long ago rediscovered us again today, and asked particularly after one article: Noun Overuse Phenomenon Article, from Vol. 2, No. 4. So there it is — click on the link to read it. It’s a favorite! Please remember that if you are ordering...
by VERBATIM Editor | Authors, Links, News
Long-time readers of VERBATIM will recognize the name David Galef; his pieces in our magazine consistently garner compliments (and the editor is always pleased to find a new one coming across her email transom). But VERBATIM, as you all know, only publishes...
by VERBATIM Editor | Games, News, Rosenthal
It’s almost time for holiday shopping, so we’ve collated SIX YEARS of Gloria Rosenthal’s “You’ve Got Game” game reviews here in one humongous blog post for you! Here are all the games she’s reviewed — have...
by VERBATIM Editor | News
VERBATIM has moved, and despite our renewing the forwarding request several times, the Chicago Post Office has decided it would be easier to pretend we don’t exist. So if your letter is returned, our new address is: PO Box 597302Chicago IL 60659 Our old address...
by VERBATIM Editor | Back Articles, News
I was thinking of Dwight Bolinger the other day (as you do) and remembered that he had written a very nice short article about “Darn!” for VERBATIM back in the day. Enjoy!...
by VERBATIM Editor | Books, News, Reviews
We’re not quite at the “partridge in a pear tree” stage of the month yet, but I thought you might all enjoy this review, by Larry Urdang, of Thomas L. Bernard’s The Twelve Days of Christmas: The Mystery and The Meaning, from Vol. XXI/3:...
by VERBATIM Editor | News
If you were missing the answers to Crossword #104 in XXXI/1, you’re not the only one! Click here for them, which I know you’re only using to check your own answers, right?
by VERBATIM Editor | Larry Urdang, News
Laurence Urdang, VERBATIM’s founding editor and one of the most prolific lexicographers of the English language, died August 21, in Connecticut. Here is the link to The New York Times obituary; Ben Zimmer posts about Larry on Language Log; and I think the best...
by VERBATIM Editor | Games, News, PairingPairs, Puzzles, Verbatim Book
I got a call this morning from someone who had picked up the VERBATIM book and needed one of the answers in Larry Urdang’s Pairing Pairs explained. Which I did (possibly even to his satisfaction) … but that motivated me to put up a link to Pairing Pairs...
by VERBATIM Editor | News
Last year sometime (we?re very exact here at VERBATIM world headquarters) we asked you to send us your favorite words. Not necessarily the words whose meaning you most admired, but the words you found a joy to say, write and hear (and as some of you pointed out, to...
by VERBATIM Editor | Issues, News, Spring06
A new issue! Several, in fact, but here’s the Table of Contents for the first of the new issues: Qat in Yemen Gregory Johnson Three Limericks Max Gutmann Cuckoo for Crack Mark Peters My Genetic Code Louis Phillips User-Friendly Turkish Martin Gani Linguistic...
by VERBATIM Editor | News, Staff
We’re happy to announce that Mark Peters has joined VERBATIM as a Contributing Editor. Mark is a frequent contributor to VERBATIM, and a language columnist for the parenting website Babble, as well as writing for American Speech, The Chronicle of Higher...
by VERBATIM Editor | Letters, News
One of my favorite parts of VERBATIM has always been the letters to the editor. They’re often more like bite-size articles than like traditional letters to the editor. This one, below, was the first letter in Volume I, No. 1, from Eric Hamp. Dear Sir: People...
