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I'm executive producer of Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com. You can find an archive of my Word Routes columns here. I'm also language columnist for The Wall Street Journal, former language columnist for The Boston Globe and The New York Times Magazine, and chair of the New Words Committee for the American Dialect Society. My official site is here, and you can follow me on Facebook and Twitter.
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Favorite Quote:
"Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used."
- David Lehman
Favorite Topics:
Language:
A Powerful Debunking of Whorfian Exaggeration
April 14, 2014
- 6 Comments
Linguistics:
A Powerful Debunking of Whorfian Exaggeration
April 14, 2014
- 6 Comments
Word Origins:
Baseball Lingo, from "Cup of Coffee" to "Southpaw"
April 8, 2014
A "Final Four" of March Madness Lingo
March 31, 2014
Politics:
Nobody Likes a Whistleblower (or a Wrayer, Quadruplator, or Emphanist)
February 24, 2014
February 24, 2014
5 Years After Its Discovery, a Washingtonian Typo Lingers
February 17, 2014
- 10 Comments
Usage:
"Staycation," "Bleisure," and Other Made-Up Travel Words
April 15, 2014
Words:
"Staycation," "Bleisure," and Other Made-Up Travel Words
April 15, 2014
Scrabble Showdown: "Zen" Versus... "Geocache"?
April 9, 2014
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