Shruti A.
Subscriber since: May 2011
Location:
Centreville,
VA
About Me
I'm an all-out verbomaniac and I love learning new words with quirky pronunciations and spellings. Apart from spelling, I like hanging out with friends, reading, doodling, and riding my bike.
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Favorite Word:
WeltanschauungGerman words and language patterns are always tricky and fun to learn, and Weltanschauung is one of my favorites. I also love the words trichotillomania, chthonic, Boeotia, eleemosynary, and cwm. Unfortunately, Visual Thesaurus does not have a few of my other favorite words: onychophagia, bewusstseinslage, and cywydd.
Least Favorite Word:
BydgoszczThe name of a city in Poland, this is one of the trickiest words I've seen. On top of its weird spelling, this word has a weird pronunciation, too.
Other words with very difficult pronunciations and spellings are rachischisis, acciaccatura, eisteddfodd, groenendael, and taoiseach. VT does not have a few others like cynghanedd, brettanomyces, quaalude, and bowssen.
Favorite Quote:
"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."
- Oscar Wilde
Favorite Topics:
Creativity:
Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010
- 2 Comments
Dictionaries:
A Taxing Day for Dictionaries
April 15, 2013
A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
January 23, 2013
- 3 Comments
Fiction writing:
The Power of General Statements
January 23, 2012
- 15 Comments
The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011
- 12 Comments
Fun:
How "Baloney" Got Phony
May 3, 2013
- 2 Comments
How to write:
Language:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4 Comments
Language arts:
A Wicked Worksheet of the Week
May 15, 2013
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013
- 1 Comment
Linguists:
A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Telling the Life Stories of Words
December 7, 2010
Poetry:
The Return of the Grammar Haiku Contest
February 28, 2013
- 2 Comments
Celebrating Fibonacci Day
November 15, 2012
Puzzle:
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition!
March 21, 2008
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: February Edition!
February 13, 2008
Reading:
Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013
- 2 Comments
Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013
- 5 Comments
Spelling:
Scripps National Spelling Bee Adds Vocabulary Questions
April 11, 2013
- 3 Comments
Rosanne Cash Knows Her "Ischium" at a Literary Spelling Bee
November 20, 2012
- 1 Comment
Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
- 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
Vocabulary:
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Silicon Valley's Favorite Word: "Delight"
May 14, 2013
Web tools:
Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
November 15, 2011
- 3 Comments
Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
November 4, 2011
- 4 Comments
Words:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4 Comments
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Writers:
Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013
- 2 Comments
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