Vocabula Bound
Outbursts, Insights, Explanations, and Oddities

Essays from The Vocabula Review

Edited by Robert Hartwell Fiske

ISBN: 0-9729937-6-2, paper, 304 pages, $19.95

Vocabula Bound is a collection of twenty-five extraordinary essays about the English language, as well as twenty-five poems, that originally appeared in The Vocabula Review. The essays range in topic from the importance of teaching poetry to the “secret nature” of nicknames.

Contributors include:

* Joseph Epstein on the “upsizing” of our language
* Kelly Cannon on the writing habits of lawyers
* Ken Bresler on the tyranny of synonyms in general
* Peter Corey on the rise of linguistics and fall of grammar
* Orin Hargraves on British English versus American English
* Richard Lederer on language mangled by politicians
* David Carkeet on language errors in the movie Titanic


The Vocabula Review is an online monthly journal about the state of the English language. Each issue contains articles about some aspect of the
language and its effect on society. In sum, The Vocabula Review battles nonstandard, careless English and embraces clear, expressive English.