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Wordmasters

Language Arts Classroom Competition

WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Mar-Apr '10
Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010

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Candlepower

Ad and marketing creatives

Red Pen Diaries: Stop Abbreviation Abuse Now!
Tue Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2010
By Julia Rubiner

And now from our friends at Editorial Emergency, a brief rant against abbreviated jargon, from "fail" to "convo": "If you feel like an idiot saying something out loud, don't say it in writing either."  Continue reading...
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Behind the Dictionary

Lexicographers Talk About Language

Why the "Doughnut Hole" Metaphor is Inside Out
Mon Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2010
By Neal Whitman

The recent passage of health care legislation in the U.S. Congress has got linguist Neal Whitman ruminating over a reform-related metaphor that doesn't make much sense when you stop to think about it.  Continue reading...
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Contest

The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition
Fri Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2010

We're bidding farewell to winter with a seasonal crossword puzzle. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!  Continue reading...
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Dept. of Word Lists

On the Road Again: Images of a Privileged Childhood
Thu Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2010
By Bob Greenman

These childhood memories employ a number of words that appear in my book More Words That Make a Difference, with illustrative sentences from the Atlantic Monthly.  Continue reading...
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Word Count

Writers Talk About Writing

Gaelic Lore Galore
Wed Mar 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
By Stan Carey

Stan Carey, a professional editor from Ireland, writes entertainingly about the English language on his blog Sentence First. Here Stan enlightens us about an Irish word borrowed into English, galore.  Continue reading...
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Blog Excerpts

Acquiring the @ Symbol
Tue Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010

New York's Museum of Modern Art has made an unusual acquisition. According to a blog post by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of the museum's Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA has acquired the @ symbol.  Continue reading...
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