The Visual Thesaurus will have an exhibit at the Dictionary Society of North America biennial conference, held at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Click here for more information.

Cruciverbalists descend on the Brooklyn Marriott for the 2009 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. Read our dispatches from the Tournament in Word Routes.

The Visual Thesaurus will have an exhibit at the National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Washington, DC. Stop by and visit us at Booth 937! Click here for conference details.

The 2009 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, held this past weekend at the Brooklyn Marriott, had it all: warm cameraderie of puzzle-minded word lovers, and high drama in the finals that left the audience alternately gasping and cheering. If you missed any of our coverage of the Tournament, here's a handy recap.  Continue reading...

Teachers from across the country write us about how the Visual Thesaurus helps their students increase reading comprehension. Now a federally funded study is taking a closer look at the connection between the Visual Thesaurus and reading. Developed by researchers at the prestigious Education Development Center, Inc. in Boston, the study is following eighth grade students with learning disabilities who've been introduced to the Visual Thesaurus. Their findings show that the Visual Thesaurus can significantly help students struggling with reading comprehension.  Continue reading...

Some recent cases of American dialect creep raised hackles among readers of a British newspaper; we examine the phenomenon this month in the Lounge.  Continue reading...

Acclaimed writer Zadie Smith has a fascinating article in the New York Review of Books on "many-voiced" people, including Eliza Doolittle, Barack Obama, Shakespeare, and herself. Read it here.