(Last change: 10 February 1999.)

Here are the first 26 "Words & Stuff" columns.

Note: I still haven't finished dealing with the controversy over stormy petrels. I seem to have some sort of block against it. If you've written me about petrels and your comments aren't included, I probably just haven't dealt with your note yet; apologies. If you've written me about something else and I haven't replied, feel free to nag me about it.

a. Dogwood (1/5/97)

reader comments (3/27/97)

b. I've Jibe and Joke (1/12/97)

reader comments (2/5/97)

c. The Elusive Stormy Petrel (1/19/97)

reader comments (6/3/97)

d. Everything Higgledy-Piggledy (1/26/97)

reader comments (3/27/97)

e. An Eloquent Orator (2/2/97)

reader comments (1/18/99)

f. What They Did: The Movie (2/9/97)

reader comments (6/3/97)

g. Haunts and Apparitions (2/16/97)

h. Heteroradical Homonyms (2/23/97)

reader comments and addenda (2/10/99)

i. Words Within Words (6/2/97)

reader comments and addenda (9/1/97)

j. The Big Red Hen (3/9/97)

reader comments (4/1/97)

k. /'INglIS &z Si Iz spEld/ (3/16/97)

l. Mostly Anapestic (3/23/97)

reader comments (9/2/97)

m. A Roiling Mind Gathers Mnemosyne (3/30/97)

reader comments (6/3/97)

n. What's in a Name? (4/6/97)

reader comments (7/3/97)

o. Words of Just One Beat (4/13/97)

reader comments (5/5/97)

p. The Similarity Engine (4/20/97)

q. Off With Their Heads (4/27/97)

reader comments (8/31/97)

r. Say What I Mean (5/4/97)

reader comments (3/17/98)

s. Beware of Greeks Bearing Poems (5/11/97)

reader comments and addenda (1/10/99)

t. Twiddling While Rome Burns (5/18/97)

reader comments (9/1/97)

u. Ubbi Dubbi, You're the One (5/25/97)

reader comments (9/1/97)

v. The Game of Fives (6/1/97)

w. They Call the Wind Maria (6/8/97)

reader comments (3/17/98)

x. Alalaes Ululient (6/15/97)

y. Secret Yets (6/22/97)

reader comments and addenda (9/3/98)

z. Time and the Mailman (6/29/97)

reader comments (9/1/97)

I continue to (slowly) update reader-comments pages as I continue to get comments; the above dates on such pages indicate when comments were most recently added. The most recent round of additions is marked in boldface.