nrs
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Location: Australia
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issue
Near meaningless term for "something, whatever, noticed". Overused, as is "problem" e.g. "Do you have a problem with that?"
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Favorite Quote:

"... sunt lacrimae rerum There are tears of things"
- Vergil: Aeneid I: 462

Favorite Topics:

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
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Such Examples as These
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Language:

Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
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"Beat-Upedness"?
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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

Linguistics:

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Meronymy?
May 1, 2013 - 11 Comments
What's Happening?
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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

Naming:

XOXO Marks the Spot
February 14, 2013
How to Name Anything
January 17, 2013 - 4 Comments

Poetry:

The Return of the Grammar Haiku Contest
February 28, 2013 - 2 Comments
Celebrating Fibonacci Day
November 15, 2012

Puzzle:

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

Reading:

Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013 - 2 Comments
Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013 - 5 Comments

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

Word Origins:

Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
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March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013

Words:

Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013 - 1 Comment
"Beat-Upedness"?
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Writers:

Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
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Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013 - 3 Comments

Writing:

Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
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How to Overcome Your Writing Shame
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