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Rob Davis
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Favorite Word:
empyrean
Reminds by way of apparent similarity to "empirical" how "heaven" is known.
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Least Favorite Word:
none
That is to say, I have no "least favorite word".
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Favorite Quote:
"Speech becomes inaudible without silence."
- I did.
Favorite Topics:
Blogs:
Getting "Gatsby": The Language Behind the Novel
May 10, 2013
- 1
Comment
Obsolete Words Worth Reviving?
March 21, 2013
Books:
"Yes, I Could Care Less": A Mixed Bag
May 15, 2013
- 9
Comments
Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
May 14, 2013
- 2
Comments
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
Grammar:
Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
May 22, 2013
- 1
Comment
Such Examples as These
May 20, 2013
Language:
Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
May 22, 2013
- 1
Comment
"Beat-Upedness"?
May 21, 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
Libraries:
Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
January 15, 2013
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011
- 4
Comments
Linguistics:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Meronymy?
May 1, 2013
- 11
Comments
What's Happening?
March 1, 2013
- 6
Comments
Linguists:
A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Telling the Life Stories of Words
December 7, 2010
Media:
Words from a "Surreal" Week in Boston
April 22, 2013
- 2
Comments
Roger Ebert's Lexicon: Fruit Carts, Idiot Plots, and Wunza Movies
April 5, 2013
- 7
Comments
Poetry:
The Return of the Grammar Haiku Contest
February 28, 2013
- 2
Comments
Celebrating Fibonacci Day
November 15, 2012
Politics:
How Language Shapes The Gun Debate
February 28, 2013
Letting "Sequester" Fester
February 21, 2013
- 4
Comments
Public relations:
Optimizing Your Press Releases For the Web
February 15, 2008
- 1
Comment
Publicity How-To, For Free
January 17, 2008
Teaching:
A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Always Never Something: Eliminating Five Overused Words
April 29, 2013
- 14
Comments
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
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013
Words:
"Beat-Upedness"?
May 21, 2013
- 4
Comments
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4
Comments
Writers:
Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
May 14, 2013
- 2
Comments
Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013
- 3
Comments
Writing:
Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
May 14, 2013
- 2
Comments
How to Overcome Your Writing Shame
May 13, 2013
- 4
Comments
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