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What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
December 30, 2016
By Adam Cooper
BROWSE BY DATEArticles from 2016Word RoutesExploring the pathways of our lexiconWhat Are You Doing New Year's Eve? December 30, 2016 By Adam Cooper![]() Word CountWriters Talk About WritingBob Dylan: Joker and Thinker. Cynic and Believer. Lover and Loner. December 21, 2016 By Michael Lydon
Bob Dylan has led and still leads generations of us ordinary men and women through the day-in, day-out, year-in, year-out battle to keep our feet on the ground, our eyes on the stars, and our souls battered but unbowed.
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Article Topics:Dog EaredBooks we loveAn Insider's Look at the Creation (and Endless Recreation) of the Oxford English Dictionary December 19, 2016 By Mark Peters
Just as the OED will never be finished documenting the English language, there's always more to tell about the OED itself. So the latest addition to the historical record of our greatest historical dictionary—The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by lexicographer Peter Gilliver—is most welcome.
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With the new Star Wars movie Rogue One opening today, it's a fitting moment to look at how the meaning of rogue has evolved over the years, from one who is deceitful and worthless to today's connotation of the charming scoundrel.
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Word CountWriters Talk About WritingTrying to Build a Writing Habit? Beware These 5 Traps. December 12, 2016 By Daphne Gray-Grant
I work with dozens of people every year who are trying to build the writing habit. Some succeed quickly. Others take much longer.
When would-be-writers flail and flop, I can usually trace the problem back to one of these five mistaken beliefs.
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Article Topics:Evasive ManeuversEuphemisms old and newGraphic Third-party Development Needs in a Post-truth World December 7, 2016 By Mark Peters
Development need. This is my new favorite/least favorite euphemism, and I spied it in some online discussions about writing. One student after another mentioned having "some strengths and development needs." Not strengths and weaknesses, nosireebob: strengths and development needs, by the green thumb of Yoda.
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Language LoungeA Monthly Column for Word LoversOperating Systems for Life December 1, 2016 By Orin Hargraves
Default. Reboot. Now that we are devoting an ever-increasing share of our time and minds to the ways we interact with technology, words and meanings that designate aspects of interaction between humans and computers are now being used to characterize social and interpersonal interaction that is independent of technology.
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