Tyrus
Subscriber since: Mon Aug 17 02:07:08 EDT 2009
Location: Brooklyn, NY
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Favorite Word:

éparpiller

Least Favorite Word:

lover

Favorite Quote:

"Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt."
- Shakespeare. "Measure for Measure", I.iv.

Favorite Topics:

Advertising:

Brand Names of the Year for 2020
Dubiously Distinguished

Books:

"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
Highly Entertaining and Informative

Branding:

The Rare, Overstuffed "Turduckenym"
Electrifying!

Business writing:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start
When You Should Reduce Your Goals

Creativity:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start

Fun:

Very Spatial and Capable Lethal Aid

Grammar:

Seven Sentences You Should Stop Writing
How to Make Your Sentences Shorter

How to write:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start

Language:

Metaphors We Live By (Updated)
Brand Names of the Year for 2021

Libraries:

Love Your Librarian

Linguistics:

Scale Your Onboarding

Linguists:

Joseph Stalin and Problems of Linguistics
Of Dialects, Vernaculars, and Code-Switching

Marketing:

What Do Plus Signs Add?
Brand Names of the Year for 2019

Marketing copy:

What Do Plus Signs Add?
Dubiously Distinguished

Media:

Understanding "Maven"

Naming:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Understanding "Maven"

Poetry:

And Forget the He and She
In Praise of Ambiguity

Politics:

Suffrage and Language
Unidentified Aerial Horse Apples

Public relations:

Over Time, Euphemisms Develop
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Spelling:

To Bee or Not to Bee?

Teaching:

Teach Your Children Well

Visual Thesaurus:

The Post-Dictionary World?
Poll Stars

Word Origins:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Scale Your Onboarding

Words:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse