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Favorite Word:
discombobulationI like the meaning, the sound and generally exist in a state thereof...
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ToryGeorge Osborne, David Cameron, Michael Gove, Michael Howard, Norman Tebbitt, Margaret Thatcher.
Favorite Quote:
""English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England!""
- Homer
Favorite Topics:
Blogs:
Ben Zimmer on How Technology is Shaping Language
October 8, 2013
- 2 Comments
On Slate, Lexicon Valley Launches a New Language Blog
September 10, 2013
Dictionaries:
The Evasion-English Dictionary: A Smart Bomb Aimed at Sneaky, Self-deluded Language
August 31, 2018
- 2 Comments
Help for Harried Justices
August 1, 2017
Fiction writing:
Do You Agree With These Quotes About Writing?
November 17, 2017
- 5 Comments
Grammar:
80th Column: Verbal Oddities
October 31, 2016
- 13 Comments
Order Your Adjectives: Failed and Nuclear
October 17, 2016
- 6 Comments
Language:
"Humans and Robots Do Not Communicate Well"
November 1, 2018
November 1, 2018
Language arts:
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015
- 4 Comments
The Art of Subterfuge: Using Pop Culture to Create Interest in the Classics
December 5, 2014
- 4 Comments
Linguistics:
"Humans and Robots Do Not Communicate Well"
November 1, 2018
Linguists:
"Humans and Robots Do Not Communicate Well"
November 1, 2018
Naming:
By the Light of the Moonmoon: The Joy of Reduplication
October 31, 2018
- 3 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
Storytelling:
Murray's Mission: My Greatest Elementary School Memory
May 7, 2014
- 7 Comments
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
- 2 Comments
Students:
"Sinister Buttocks" and the Dangers of Thesaurus Flipping
August 29, 2014
- 12 Comments
Teachers:
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015
- 4 Comments
How Can English Teachers Nurture Young Writers?
March 6, 2015
- 2 Comments
Teaching:
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015
- 4 Comments
How Can English Teachers Nurture Young Writers?
March 6, 2015
- 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:
By the Light of the Moonmoon: The Joy of Reduplication
October 31, 2018
- 3 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:
By the Light of the Moonmoon: The Joy of Reduplication
October 31, 2018
- 3 Comments
The Geeky, Cosmic, Philosophical History of "Multiverse"
May 23, 2018
- 1 Comment
Writing:
Why I'm Writing This Column on a Treadmill
October 18, 2018
Young readers:
How to Encourage Summer Reading
July 16, 2014
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