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  • June 18, 2004
    Words That at First Glance Appear to be The Names of Warring Populations in Bad Science-Fiction Novels, but are Actually Strange Marsupials
    by Carrie Cizauskas
  • February 27, 2004
    Words That Could Conceivably Be Used to Describe Both Scalps and Scallops
    by Michael Ward
  • January 4, 2004
    Adjective and Noun Combinations Considered and Then Discarded in Favor of “Black Betty” in the Song “Black Betty,” Which Is Perhaps Better Known as “Whoa! Black Betty! Bam-ba-Lam.”
    by Evan Billings
  • September 3, 2002
    Vocabulary Words We Learned by Playing Dungeons & Dragons
    by Pat Hall and Marc Newman
  • June 16, 2002
    Selected Words from a Chinese-English Dictionary Published in the People’s Republic of China And the Sentences Used to Illustrate Their Meanings
    by David Jaggard
  • April 29, 2002
    My Unabridged Vocabulary at Thirteen Months, Which, Unhappily, Foreshadows the Next 302
    by Michelle Orange
  • January 2, 2002
    Words Used by My Grandfather in His WWII Diary to Denote Intoxication
    by Elizabeth Ellen
  • December 20, 2001
    The Many Uses Of The Word “Word.”
    by Joey Fortuna
  • December 17, 2001
    The Thirty Two Words
    by Christopher Hickman
  • November 5, 2001
    Nine Words Probably Not Ever Found in Personal Ads
    by Melissa Bell
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