Douglas B.
Subscriber since: July 2011
About Me
I am an attorney, a profession that can lead to the hackneyed and trite use of language. But I love novels that are set in a lawyerly settting. My favorite is Dickens Bleak House. The paragraphs describing the controversy involved in Jarnndyce v. Jarndyce describe everything wrong with the practice of law
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Favorite Quote:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
- Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
Favorite Topics:
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
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
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013
Politics:
How Language Shapes The Gun Debate
February 28, 2013
Letting "Sequester" Fester
February 21, 2013
- 4 Comments
Usage:
Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013
- 1 Comment
Vocabulary:
Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013
- 1 Comment
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
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