Mary L.
Subscriber since: March 2012
Location: West Jordan, UT
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Advertising:

Under the Influence
February 18, 2019 - 2 Comments
To Boldly Go
May 14, 2018 - 5 Comments

Blogs:

Ben Zimmer on How Technology is Shaping Language
October 8, 2013 - 2 Comments
On Slate, Lexicon Valley Launches a New Language Blog
September 10, 2013

Books:

"Because Internet": Celebrating the Way We Talk Online
July 17, 2019 - 3 Comments
Hotter Than the Doones' Bonfire in July
July 1, 2019 - 7 Comments

Branding:

Sidecars and Scofflaws: Prohibition's Linguistic Hangover
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers October 23, 2019 - 1 Comment
"Deep" Thoughts
June 17, 2019 - 1 Comment

Grammar:

"Dreyer's English": An Utterly Readable Style Guide
March 18, 2019 - 2 Comments
80th Column: Verbal Oddities
October 31, 2016 - 13 Comments

Libraries:

Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
January 15, 2013
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011 - 4 Comments

Marketing:

Sidecars and Scofflaws: Prohibition's Linguistic Hangover
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers October 23, 2019 - 1 Comment
Working Titles
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers September 25, 2019 - 2 Comments

Naming:

How to Name Your Characters
November 4, 2019 - 3 Comments
Sidecars and Scofflaws: Prohibition's Linguistic Hangover
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers October 23, 2019 - 1 Comment

Online:

News Speak
September 2, 2019 - 2 Comments
"Because Internet": Celebrating the Way We Talk Online
July 17, 2019 - 3 Comments

Reading:

How to Read More Books
November 19, 2018 - 5 Comments
Pride and Prejudice and Natural Language Processing
April 2, 2018 - 2 Comments

Self-publishing:

The March of the E-Books
March 25, 2013 - 15 Comments
Self-Publish Your Writing!
November 28, 2011 - 4 Comments

Spelling:

2015 Spelling Bee: Co-Champions Triumph Again, as Vanya and Gokul Prove Unbeatable
May 29, 2015
Is It "Copyeditor" or "Copy Editor"?
September 17, 2014 - 7 Comments

Visual Thesaurus:

Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012 - 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012

Vocabulary:

A "Dumpster Fire" of a Year
January 11, 2017
Getting the Low-down on Up-classify
July 14, 2016 - 2 Comments

Web tools:

Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
November 15, 2011 - 3 Comments
Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
November 4, 2011 - 4 Comments

Writing:

Five Writing Lessons From Keith Richards
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers November 20, 2019 - 6 Comments
How to Name Your Characters
November 4, 2019 - 3 Comments