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Candlepower

Ad and marketing creatives

The "Plantation" Problem
July 16, 2020
By Nancy Friedman

"Plantation"--a word with a complicated history in the US--appears in many brand and community names. Is it time to abandon it?  Continue reading...
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Evasive Maneuvers

Euphemisms old and new

Dreaming of Warm Lines and Patriot Pay
July 9, 2020
By Mark Peters

Need help getting through 2020? Here's a euphemism or two to distract you from reality.  Continue reading...
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Language Lounge

A Monthly Column for Word Lovers

Traffic in Words
July 1, 2020
By Orin Hargraves

You don't need much imagination to guess why people who work in the dictionary world would be interested in new words, but the research methods for finding them are much more wide-ranging and intensive than you might imagine.  Continue reading...
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Word Count

Writers Talk About Writing

How to Make Your Sentences Shorter
June 25, 2020
By Daphne Gray-Grant

Did you know that even as general literacy has increased, our ability to read and understand long sentences has decreased? Here are some tricks to make your sentences shorter.  Continue reading...
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Candlepower

Ad and marketing creatives

Slogans for Health
Premium content available only to Visual Thesaurus subscribers.June 18, 2020
By Nancy Friedman

How important is a slogan during a global health crisis like the one we're experiencing with COVID-19? More important than you might think.  Continue reading...
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Evasive Maneuvers

Euphemisms old and new

Finding Distraction in the Historical Dictionary of American Slang
June 10, 2020
By Mark Peters

Finding comfort and distractions in euphemisms from the letter H.  Continue reading...
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Language Lounge

A Monthly Column for Word Lovers

Take 2
June 1, 2020
By Orin Hargraves

The stay-at-home orders of recent months have meant a lot more time to deep-dive into etymologies, and this has led me to reflect on a thing I hadn't noticed as much before: English has a surfeit of expressions for the idea 1 + 1.  Continue reading...
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