Joseph W
Subscriber since: January 2009
Location:
MD,
United States
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Context is everything!
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Least Favorite Word:
likeBecause, you know? The word is like is so overused in today's discourse that I think that it should, like, have a sin tax assigned to it's usage, like what they do with cigarette sales.
Yeah, that's neat! (Uggggggh!)
Favorite Quote:
""An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.""
- Mohandas Gandhi
Favorite Topics:
Blogs:
What's the Deal with "Auld Lang Syne"?
January 2, 2012
Celebrate the National Day on Writing
October 19, 2011
Books:
Surveying the Mind-Boggling Diversity of American English
February 8, 2012
- 4 Comments
I DARE Say!
January 17, 2012
Business writing:
Red Pen Diaries: Das Kapitalization
November 8, 2010
- 6 Comments
Buzzword Watch: "Acq-hire"
September 28, 2010
- 7 Comments
Copywriting:
Score One for the Apostrophe
October 19, 2011
- 9 Comments
The Case of the Lay Flat Collar
June 29, 2010
- 19 Comments
Creativity:
Calling All Writers: Introducing Figment
May 16, 2011
SciPlay, So Far
November 30, 2010
- 2 Comments
Language:
"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012
- 6 Comments
Surveying the Mind-Boggling Diversity of American English
February 8, 2012
- 4 Comments
Language arts:
The Wild Kingdom of Animal Adjectives
January 31, 2012
Better Off Banished?
January 24, 2012
- 3 Comments
Libraries:
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011
- 4 Comments
"Get Your Geek On" at Public Libraries
November 19, 2010
- 9 Comments
Linguistics:
Surveying the Mind-Boggling Diversity of American English
February 8, 2012
- 4 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:
Introducing "Lexicon Valley"
February 7, 2012
Exposure, Excitement, Inspiration
December 19, 2011
- 4 Comments
Reading:
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011
- 5 Comments
Spelling:
What's a Misle?
December 7, 2011
Now Pitching in the World Series: The Man They Call "Scrabble"
October 21, 2011
- 6 Comments
Usage:
"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012
- 6 Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Vote for the VT as Top Language Website!
December 23, 2011
Jamie McKenzie on Finding the Best Words
November 16, 2011
- 6 Comments
Web tools:
Your Virtual Bookshelf
November 25, 2008
Is Dr. Johnson Rolling in His Grave?
October 21, 2008
WordMasters:
WordMasters: Grade 7 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 7 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
Words:
"Downton Abbey": Tracking the Anachronisms
February 10, 2012
- 6 Comments
Writer's block:
Getting Unstuck
July 24, 2008
Why You Should Think of Yourself as an Orange
June 4, 2008
- 11 Comments
Writers:
"Not to Put Too Fine a Point Upon It": How Dickens Helped Shape the Lexicon
February 3, 2012
- 12 Comments
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