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Subscriber since: January 2010
Location: London, United Kingdom
About Me
I want to enrich my vocabulary by adding new words to it. This will give me more confidence with public speaking and writing documents.
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Favorite Word:

excellence
This is what I try to aim for in all I do.
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Favorite Topics:

Business writing:

Red Pen Diaries: Das Kapitalization
November 8, 2010 - 6 Comments
Buzzword Watch: "Acq-hire"
September 28, 2010 - 7 Comments

Creativity:

Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010 - 2 Comments

Grammar:

Orwell and Singular "They"
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 6, 2013 - 5 Comments
A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013

How to write:

How to Overcome Your Writing Shame
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 13, 2013 - 4 Comments
10 Non-Writing Activities That Will Improve Your Writing
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers April 15, 2013 - 9 Comments

Language:

An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013 - 4 Comments
"Yes, I Could Care Less": A Mixed Bag
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 15, 2013 - 9 Comments

Linguistics:

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Meronymy?
May 1, 2013 - 11 Comments
What's Happening?
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers March 1, 2013 - 6 Comments

Online:

A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Whither The #Hashtag?
March 27, 2013

Puzzle:

The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition!
March 21, 2008
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: February Edition!
February 13, 2008

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

Storytelling:

Type Casting
January 24, 2012 - 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011 - 5 Comments

Teaching:

A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Always Never Something: Eliminating Five Overused Words
April 29, 2013 - 14 Comments

Usage:

An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013 - 4 Comments
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013 - 7 Comments

Visual Thesaurus:

Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012 - 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012

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

WordMasters:

WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011

Words:

An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013 - 4 Comments
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013 - 7 Comments