Olinda
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vicarious
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Books:

Dennis Baron's "What's Your Prounoun? Beyond He & She" is a Timely Winner
February 27, 2020 - 2 Comments
Inspiration to All
December 10, 2019 - 1 Comment

Dictionaries:

Finding (or Inventing) Euphemisms in the Latest OED Update
November 13, 2019 - 4 Comments
Webster: the Weaseliest Word in Dictionaries
June 21, 2019 - 4 Comments

Grammar:

How to make your sentences shorter
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I May Not Know Grammar, But I Know What I Like
April 3, 2020 - 14 Comments

How to write:

Think first. Write later.
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers August 20, 2020 - 4 Comments
How to let go of the 'sorry' cycle and begin again
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers July 23, 2020 - 3 Comments

Language:

A Slogan in Every Pot!
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Master of the Malarkey Arts
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers September 10, 2020 - 1 Comment

Libraries:

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

Online:

Guys and... ?
February 3, 2020 - 8 Comments
News Speak
September 2, 2019 - 2 Comments

Poetry:

And Forget the He and She
December 2, 2019 - 2 Comments
In Praise of Ambiguity
July 23, 2014 - 2 Comments

Politics:

Suffrage and Language
February 17, 2020 - 2 Comments
Unidentified Aerial Horse Apples
October 9, 2019 - 5 Comments

Reading:

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

Word Origins:

A Slogan in Every Pot!
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Master of the Malarkey Arts
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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:

Master of the Malarkey Arts
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The "Plantation" Problem
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Writer's block:

Think first. Write later.
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Four Ways to Build Mental Toughness for Writing
December 23, 2019 - 7 Comments

Writing:

Master of the Malarkey Arts
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Think first. Write later.
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers August 20, 2020 - 4 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