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Joan L. Cannon writes: "We have more words than most other modern languages. Of course we don’t need to know them all and couldn’t use them all (though I think Nabokov may have tried). Yet, that richness makes maximum precision almost always poss… more »

Julia Sneden writes: "Perhaps it's human nature to look around and wish for something you don't have. The alternative would lend to a kind of smugness that is at the very least unattractive, and at the most, would lead to a kind of stasis. If th… more »

Jo Freeman reviews Women Making America, covering women’s history from the Revolution to the present day. Chock full of colorful images, it swoops high and low, sometimes mapping the forest and sometimes looking at a tree. more »

Rose Mula writes, "No one who has ever heard it can forget the poignant, Passau du tempu ca Berta filava, or "The time for Bertha to weave is ended,” roughly equivalent to “Make hay while the sun shines,” but probably means that synthetic fib… more »