The Vocabula Review

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The Vocabula Review was a monthly electronic magazine about the state of the English language.

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Publication

The journal was published online by the Vocabula Communications Company. [1] Online access was by subscription. All previous issues were accessible online. The editor-in-chief and publisher was Robert Hartwell Fiske. [2] He was the editor of two collections of essays and poems that were previously published in The Vocabula Review: Vocabula Bound 1: Outbursts, Insights, Explanations, and Oddities and Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue. Fiske also authored The Dimwit's Dictionary, a volume on over-used English words. [3]

The magazine's guiding philosophy of the English language tended to be anti-linguist and prescriptive, promoting prose that is elegant, clear, and precise. [4]

History

The magazine was first published in September 1999. [5] From January 2005, articles also appeared in a print version, the Vocabula Bound Quarterly.

References

  1. ↑ WorldCat. OCLC   243743516 . Retrieved June 11, 2014.
  2. ↑ "NewJour/Georgetown University". Archived from the original on May 21, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
  3. ↑ Rhoads, Christopher (August 23, 2007). "What Did U $@y? Online Language Finds Its Voice". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Carolina English Teacher". p. 31. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.119.2102 .
  5. ↑ Epstein, Joseph (December 7, 2006). "The Wall Street Journal" . Retrieved May 25, 2014.

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