The Vocabula Review was a monthly electronic magazine about the state of the English language.
Publication
The journal was published online by the Vocabula Communications Company. Online access was by subscription. All previous issues were accessible online. The editor-in-chief and publisher was Robert Hartwell Fiske. 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.
The magazine's guiding philosophy of the English language tended to be anti-linguist and prescriptive, promoting prose that is elegant, clear, and precise.
History
The magazine was first published in September 1999. From January 2005, articles also appeared in a print version, the Vocabula Bound Quarterly.
References
- WorldCat. OCLC 243743516. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
- "NewJour/Georgetown University". Archived from the original on 2014-05-21. Retrieved 2014-05-25.
- "What Did U $@y? Online Language Finds Its Voice". Retrieved 2014-05-26.
- "Carolina English Teacher". p. 31. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.119.2102.
- "The Wall Street Journal". Retrieved 2014-05-25.
Further reading
- "Language Guardian". Catholic Education. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
- "A man and his words: Rockport writer's 'Vocabula' strikes new chords". GloucesterTimes. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
- "Vocabula bound (review)". Language. June 2007. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
- "The End of Linguistics?". Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. 2010. Archived from the original on May 28, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2014.