Wendalyn Nichols, editor of the Copyediting newsletter, offers useful tips to copy editors and anyone else who prizes clear and orderly writing. Here she tackles the question, "Why do we say a baseball player 'flied out,' not 'flew out'?"  Continue reading...

How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to learn the U.S. customary system of measuring liquids and to apply their knowledge in solving math problems?  Continue reading...

A rose by any other name is . . . possibly hex FF E4 E1 or decimal 255 228 225. This month in the Lounge we look at the business and the pleasure of color names in English.  Continue reading...

Tributes continue to pour in for the late great William Safire and his thirty-year run as New York Times Magazine language columnist. The latest come from Visual Thesaurus contributor Mark Peters in GOOD Magazine and from former Safire research assistant Aaron Britt in Newsweek.