The Vocabula Review

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The Vocabula Review is an electronic journal about the state of the English language.

1 Publication
2 History
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Publication

The journal is published online by the Vocabula Communications Company, on or about the third Sunday of each month. Robert Hartwell Fiske is the editor and publisher of Vocabula. He is also the author of several books about language, including The Dictionary of Disagreeable English, The Dimwit's Dictionary, The Dictionary of Concise Writing, and three Vocabula 101 Series Books). A subscription fee is required to access the online Vocabula Review, which is also available as a PDF version. All previous issues are accessible online. The Vocabula Review is a nonacademic journal, so its contents are not peer-reviewed nor are detailed citations provided.

The main idea behind the journal is to militate against a perceived devolution of the English language [1]. Articles in The Vocabula Review tend to take an anti-linguist, prescriptive view on language, decrying perceived offenses against the English language, and taking a hard line against linguistic innovations and other usages which offend the sensibilities of its writers. Articles are also frequently presented from the viewpoint of being embattled by overly permissive members of the academic field of linguistics, which tends to reject the kinds of ideas frequently found in The Vocabula Review.

[edit] History

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