**** ETNI on the web http://www.etni.org.il http://www.etni.org **** http://www.vocabula.com/ IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE OF VOCABULA The October issue is 22,772 words long. A Continual Allegory: Some Thoughts on Literal-Mindedness â?? Skip Eisiminger Code Switching â?? David Isaacson Words About Our Presidents â?? Richard Lederer The Wrong Words â?? Marylaine Block Of Concordances, the Spider Guy, and Other Matters: A Rumination â?? Michael Berberich Two Poems â?? Laura Cherry The Elder Statesman: The Lost Art of the Jeremiad â?? Clark Elder Morrow The Last Word: Hillbilly Hamlets â?? Christopher Orlet Shibboleths: Comp 101 â?? John Kilgore Postcards from Babel: The Man Who Died of Thirst in the Dessert â?? Amalia Gnanadesikan Grumbling About Grammar Elegant English On Dimwitticisms Clues to Concise Writing Scarcely Used Words On the Bookshelf The Vocabula Quiz ##### To send a message to the ETNI list email: etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ##### ##### Send queries and questions to: ask@xxxxxxxx #####