Date	Example	Pith	Patter
July 2002	Double S Bond	Prune and Prosper	Polysyllabic Profundity
June 2002	Tools of the Trade	Chinese English	Lethal Diet
May 2002	Common problems	Wanton Words	Wordplay
April 2002	Exposition	Ready for Battle	Semantic Opposites
March 2002	Letter of Thanks	Excision	Gendered Nouns
February 2002	Proof Positive	Meeting the Word Limit	Neologisms
January 2002	Staying Afloat	Pointed Prose	Student-Style Science
December 2001	Reading with Ease	Get Personal	Tech Xmas
November 2001	Set the Scene	Be Constructive	Oof!
October 2001	Meet the Mark	Sink or Swim	Signs of the Times
September 2001	Writing to Sell	Little Mark, Big Difference	Imponderables
August 2001	Clarity Before Brevity	The Limits of Reason	The Tater Clan
July 2001	Marriage Proposal	Politically Concise	Verbal Gumbo
June 2001	Flushing Out the System	Off Target Translations	European English
May 2001	Blushing Roses	Managing TQM	Read 'Em and Weep
April 2001	Possessed	Jungle Undergrowth	The Bard's Brave Old World
February 2001	Demonstration	Pare and Prune	Kipling Caper
January 2001	Prepositions in Place	Take Aim and Shoot	Imponderables
December 2000	Parallel Structure	The Bible in 50 Words	Spell Chequer
November 2000	As Real As It Gets	Business Blurbology	How To Write Good
October 2000	Fit to Print?	Activate the Passive	The Chaos
September 2000	Newsworthy	Bargain Basement	Wordy Insults
August 2000	Verb Tense	First, Be Clear	Punaphors
July 2000	Listen to learn	Prepositions	Definitions
June 2000	Make a List	Cut 'n' Polish	George Carlinisms
May 2000	Get Rid of Weeds	Trim Trite Tone	Euro English
April 2000	Misplaced Modifiers	Cut Clutter	Room Service
March 2000	Less is Enough	IT  Acronyms	A Poem by an Old Timer
February 2000	Remove Redundancy	Lose Loose Language	Anagram Fun
January 2000	Thank you	Let the meaning choose the word	Perplexing Pairs
December 1999	What Does An Editor Do?	Ageism	Eurocentric Christmas
November 1999	Let’s Assay That Essay	Swat Buzz Words	Party Hardy
October 1999	Beginnings and Endings	Netisms	Two for One
September 1999	How to Write Numbers	Touchdown	Oiler Quips
August 1999	Concrete Abstract	Cheating	Chat Room Acronyms
July 1999	Letters of Reference	Close Pairs	Better Definitions
June 1999	Agree to Disagree	Prefabricated	Top 50 Oxymorons
May 1999	Meeting of the Minds	Ecclesiastes	Newspaper Headline Goofs