(Last change: 20 April 1999.)

Here's the fourth alphabet of columns:

AA. We Do 'Grams, Word Games (7/5/98)

BB. Who Are You Thinking Of? (7/12/98)

CC. Pidgin Carriers (7/19/98)

DD. Excuse me, what was that? (7/26/98)

EE. And So On (8/2/98)

reader comments and addenda (4/20/99)

FF. A Matter of Definition (8/9/98)

GG. Tidbits (8/16/98)

HH. Goodnight, Sweet Prince (8/23/98)

II. One Act Short of a Full Play (8/30/98) (warning: potentially offensive language)

JJ. Youse Jivin' Me (9/6/98)

KK. Index, Keywords, Philosophy, Games (9/13/98)

LL. A Fa Fa Better Thing (9/20/98)

reader comments and addenda (4/20/99)

MM. The Ants Are My Friends (9/27/98)

reader comments and addenda (1/10/99)

NN. The Eponymous Four (10/4/98)

OO. Peephole in a Barbed Wire Fence (10/11/98)

PP. Party Boobytrap (10/18/98)

reader comments and addenda (4/20/99)

QQ. Drongos, Droobs, and Droogs (10/25/98)

RR. Down Came the Good Fairy (11/1/98)

reader comments and addenda (12/29/98)

SS. Something Special in the Friendly Skies (11/8/98)

TT. Lost in Translation (11/15/98)

UU. Dots and Lines (11/22/98)

VV. Onset, Nucleus, Coda (11/29/98)

reader comments and addenda (1/10/99)

WW. Round and Round We Go (12/6/98)

reader comments and addenda (2/10/99)

XX. Go Fish (12/13/98)

reader comments and addenda (1/10/99)

YY. Re + Bus (12/20/98)

ZZ. What's That up in the Sky? (12/27/98)

reader comments and addenda (12/30/98)

You can also peruse older columns:

• first alphabet (last change: 2/10/99)

• second alphabet (last change: 2/10/99).

• third alphabet (last change: 4/20/99).

I add and update reader-comments pages as I receive comments; dates attached to such pages indicate when comments were most recently added. The most recent round of additions is marked in boldface.