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Location: Central California 'n Nevada, Christmas Island
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Favorite Word:
Zanzibar
rips with sound the air that carries slurs and plovises
Least Favorite Word:
exactly
overused, automatic without thought, an irony of our time.
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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
- 3
Comments
Such Examples as These
May 20, 2013
How to write:
How to Overcome Your Writing Shame
May 13, 2013
- 4
Comments
10 Non-Writing Activities That Will Improve Your Writing
April 15, 2013
- 9
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Language:
Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
May 22, 2013
- 3
Comments
"Beat-Upedness"?
May 21, 2013
- 5
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
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
Words:
Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013
- 1
Comment
"Beat-Upedness"?
May 21, 2013
- 5
Comments
Writer's block:
Getting Unstuck
July 24, 2008
Why You Should Think of Yourself as an Orange
June 4, 2008
- 11
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
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