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polymath
Subscriber since: July 2007
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Book collecter preferring biography, classics, self improvement and leadership
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polymath
a person of encyclopedic learning. Self taught. .
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Least Favorite Word:
alien
As in illegal alien. Hate the term. My grandparents were immigrants not aliens.
Favorite Quote:
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self."
- Franz Kafka
Favorite Topics:
Grammar:
Orwell and Singular "They"
May 6, 2013
- 5
Comments
A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Language:
An Army of "Strong" Slogans
May 17, 2013
- 4
Comments
"Yes, I Could Care Less": A Mixed Bag
May 15, 2013
- 8
Comments
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?
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
Reading:
Staring, Glancing and Glaring Through Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight"
March 7, 2013
- 2
Comments
Writing Packed with Life
February 4, 2013
- 5
Comments
Teachers:
Lori Wilfong on the Do's and Don'ts of Vocabulary Instruction
March 7, 2013
- 1
Comment
Schools Are More Than a Test
January 24, 2013
- 7
Comments
Teaching:
A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Always Never Something: Eliminating Five Overused Words
April 29, 2013
- 14
Comments
Writers:
Balzac's "Lost Illusions": a Novel in Contrasts
May 14, 2013
- 2
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Flash, Gleam, Glint, Sparkle: McPhee, Woolf, and Words
May 7, 2013
- 2
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