PixieWoo527
Subscriber since: June 2011
About Me
I enjoy collecting Monster High Dolls in my spare time, and hanging out with my dog Elena.
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Favorite Word:

omphaloskepsis
I just love this word :)
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Least Favorite Word:

school
I just hate this word ;(
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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

Creativity:

Self-Partnered to Poppycock
December 11, 2019 - 5 Comments
How to Name Your Characters
November 4, 2019 - 3 Comments

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

Fiction writing:

How to Name Your Characters
November 4, 2019 - 3 Comments
How to Become More Interested in What You're Writing
June 24, 2019 - 2 Comments

Fun:

Finding Distraction in the Historical Dictionary of American Slang
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Which Came First: The Chicken or the Hen Apple?
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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:

How to make your sentences shorter
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Why do the best writers have the most emotional intelligence?
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers May 27, 2020 - 4 Comments

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

Reading:

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

Storytelling:

Murray's Mission: My Greatest Elementary School Memory
May 7, 2014 - 7 Comments
Type Casting
January 24, 2012 - 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:

Going Viral: The Origins of "Contagious"
June 15, 2020 - 2 Comments
A "Dumpster Fire" of a Year
January 11, 2017

Word Origins:

Traffic in Words
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Slogans for Health
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Words:

Traffic in Words
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Pronouns Prevail for Word of Year and Decade
January 10, 2020 - 1 Comment

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

Writers:

How to make your sentences shorter
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers June 25, 2020 - 3 Comments
Dennis Baron's "What's Your Prounoun? Beyond He & She" is a Timely Winner
February 27, 2020 - 2 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