Blog Excerpts

Improve Your Iteracy Literacy

As its "Cool News of the Day," Reveries Magazine has featured the latest New York Times "On Language" column by Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer on "the iteracy afflicting Facebook, Google and others." Read more here (and read here for a previous "Cool News of the Day" tied to Zimmer's column on etymythology).
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Vocabulary:
The Post-Dictionary World?
A "Dumpster Fire" of a Year
Words:
Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse