Olinda
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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:
"Dreyer's English": An Utterly Readable Style Guide
March 18, 2019
- 2 Comments
How to write:
Why Writers Should Use a Secret Sauce: Tracking
February 24, 2020
- 4 Comments
Language:
The Case of the Generic Name
May 20, 2020
May 20, 2020
40 Days of Solitude: The Origin Story of "Quarantine"
May 10, 2020
- 4 Comments
Libraries:
Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
January 15, 2013
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011
- 4 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:
The Case of the Generic Name
May 20, 2020
40 Days of Solitude: The Origin Story of "Quarantine"
May 10, 2020
- 4 Comments
WordMasters:
WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
Words:
Pronouns Prevail for Word of Year and Decade
January 10, 2020
- 1 Comment
Comparative Nonsense
November 1, 2019
- 5 Comments
Writer's block:
Four Ways to Build Mental Toughness for Writing
December 23, 2019
- 7 Comments
How to Become More Interested in What You're Writing
June 24, 2019
- 2 Comments
Young readers:
How to Encourage Summer Reading
July 16, 2014
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