Language

Whether it has been as a radio announcer, a librarian, or a newspaper columnist, words have been Henrietta's playthings.

1989 Language Dynamics? (June 25, 1989)
1991 Reading Really IS Important! (January 7, 1991)
Funny in January? (January 12, 1991)
Writer's Block? The Season or Just the Moon? (September 28, 1991)
On Superstitions (November 27, 1991)
I Get Letters (December 13, 1991)
1992 Checking Grammar Automatically? (June 26, 1992)
Henrietta's Show and Tell (February 10, 1992)
Columnists Cover The World (February 28, 1992)
Grammar for Clarity! (March 17, 1992)
Influential Books (April 7, 1992)
Where Do Ideas Come From? (October 3, 1992)
Year-end Letters (December 28,1992)
1993 The Moment of Truth (February 8, 1993)
The Big Kids' Spelling Bee (February 22, 1993)
Personal Mythology (March 22, 1993)
Disparaging Language (May 17, 1993)
Bring on Discourse! (Politely, please...) (September 1, 1993)
Literacy (September 28, 1993)
1994 Newspapers: Wall Street Journal's Recommended Vacations(January 18, 1994)
Bartlett's Quotations (April 26, 1994)
Columns Through History? (June 7, 1994)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (June 14, 1994)
Obfuscation Marks the Professional (July 19, 1994)
Letters: 1994 (December 27, 1994)
1995 Food and Literature (February 28, 1995)
Celebrating Libraries! (April 1, 1995)
Miss America is Deaf (May 9, 1995)
Encyclopedia as a CD-ROM? (May 16, 1995)
On Heroism (September 5, 1995)
On Meeting Fellow Columnists(September 12, 1995)
About Writing (October 24, 1995)
The English Language . . . and others? (November 28, 1995)
1996 Year-end Mail (January 3, 1996)
The Public Library -- and its week (April 16, 1996)
Column Doldrums (July 23, 1996)
1997 Books vs. Computers? (February 28, 1997)
"Why Can't The English (er, Americans) teach their children how to speak?" (July 25, 1997)
For Sale: Mental Stuff (August 8, 1997)
The Information Store (October 17, 1997)
Mangling Language -- Newspeak (November 14, 1997)
1998 Henrietta Gets "hip"...or was that "cool"? (January 9, 1998)
Let's Hear it for the Library! (April 17, 1998)
Defining "Patriotism" for the Fourth of July (July 3, 1998)
On Discourse . . . (October 23, 1998)
1999 About Libraries and Camels (March 5, 1999)
Lower Your Voice and Raise Your Mind (April 9, 1999)
How to Write a Column (April 30, 1999)
2000 Nouning and Verbing (July 14, 2000)
Harry Potter Conquers the World (July 21, 2000)
2001 The Information Store (April 6, 2001)
The Fourth of July and "Patriotism" (July 4, 2001)
Ideas for a Column? (August 24, 2001)
The Rise of Political Correctness (September 14, 2001)
The Julie J. Boucher Award for Intellectual Freedom (November 9, 2001)
Banning Harry Potter!?! NO!! (November 23, 2001)
2002 The Power of Words (January 18, 2002)
On Writing Romances (March 1, 2002)
National Library Week - 2002 (April 12, 2002)
2003 Yay Libraries! (April 11, 2003)
On Writing - 2003 (May 23, 2003)
Vote for the Library! (October 10, 2003)
The Library Awaits Another Day (October 10, 2003)
2004 On Writing (November 5, 2004)
2005 The Immortal Hardy Boys (June 17, 2005)
The Official Language? (December 9, 2005)
2006 Libraries From Camels to the Internet (April 14, 2006)
Ok, It's True: Henrietta is Proud of Her Kids (August 4, 2006)
Make the Pie Higher (September 1, 2006)
2007 The New Library (January 12, 2007)
2009 On Writing (June 5, 2009)
The Joy of Language (July 17, 2009)
Writing This Column (December 4, 2009)