Olinda
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vicarious
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Books:

She Created a Monster
January 1, 2018 - 3 Comments
Write View
October 6, 2017

Dictionaries:

Help for Harried Justices
August 1, 2017
First Past the Post
May 1, 2017 - 3 Comments

Grammar:

80th Column: Verbal Oddities
October 31, 2016 - 13 Comments
Order Your Adjectives: Failed and Nuclear
October 17, 2016 - 6 Comments

How to write:

How and Where to Find Stories
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Why You Should Write Like a Jazz Musician Plays
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers June 27, 2018 - 6 Comments

Language:

Motion-challenged Hospitality for Furperson Trajectory
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The Meaning of Meaning
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers July 2, 2018 - 2 Comments

Libraries:

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

Online:

Machine Translation Dreams
March 1, 2018 - 3 Comments
(Sub)tweeting for Success
November 8, 2016

Poetry:

In Praise of Ambiguity
July 23, 2014 - 2 Comments
How the Rediscovery of a Poem Helped Kickstart the Renaissance
July 9, 2014 - 1 Comment

Politics:

Size-inclusive Reinterpretations of Collective Cockamamie Coinages
April 6, 2018 - 5 Comments
Euphemizing Some Spicy Meatballs
March 7, 2018 - 2 Comments

Reading:

Pride and Prejudice and Natural Language Processing
April 2, 2018 - 2 Comments
Stats Meet Lit in an Insightful New Book About Writing
April 19, 2017 - 1 Comment

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

Word Origins:

The Geeky, Cosmic, Philosophical History of "Multiverse"
May 23, 2018 - 1 Comment
To Boldly Go
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WordMasters:

WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011

Words:

The Geeky, Cosmic, Philosophical History of "Multiverse"
May 23, 2018 - 1 Comment
First Past the Post
May 1, 2017 - 3 Comments

Writer's block:

Why You Should Write Like a Jazz Musician Plays
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers June 27, 2018 - 6 Comments
How to Reestablish Your Writing Habit After a Break
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 26, 2018 - 7 Comments

Writing:

How and Where to Find Stories
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers July 16, 2018
Why You Should Write Like a Jazz Musician Plays
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers June 27, 2018 - 6 Comments

Young readers:

How to Encourage Summer Reading
July 16, 2014
Fifteen Ways of Looking at "The Woods": Jumpstarting Poetry in the Classroom
July 23, 2013 - 4 Comments