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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
Books:
A Powerful Debunking of Whorfian Exaggeration
April 14, 2014
- 6 Comments
Dictionaries:
Scrabble Showdown: "Zen" Versus... "Geocache"?
April 9, 2014
Which Word Should Go Into the Next Scrabble Dictionary?
April 3, 2014
Fiction writing:
The Power of General Statements
January 23, 2012
- 15 Comments
The Writer-Reader-Character Bond
August 8, 2011
- 12 Comments
Grammar:
"Over" Reaction: Copy Editors Gasp at AP Ruling on "Over"/"More Than"
March 21, 2014
- 6 Comments
Language:
A Powerful Debunking of Whorfian Exaggeration
April 14, 2014
- 6 Comments
Language arts:
The Real News About the Redesigned SAT
April 16, 2014
- 1 Comment
The Problem with Punctuation: Some Classroom Findings
March 14, 2014
- 3 Comments
Linguistics:
A Powerful Debunking of Whorfian Exaggeration
April 14, 2014
- 6 Comments
Linguists:
A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Telling the Life Stories of Words
December 7, 2010
Politics:
Nobody Likes a Whistleblower (or a Wrayer, Quadruplator, or Emphanist)
February 24, 2014
February 24, 2014
5 Years After Its Discovery, a Washingtonian Typo Lingers
February 17, 2014
- 10 Comments
Reading:
Strangers in Our Midst: Words We Skip While Reading
April 9, 2014
- 4 Comments
For National Reading Month, Finding Vocabulary All Around Us
March 20, 2014
Storytelling:
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
- 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011
- 5 Comments
Students:
You've Got Mail: The Art of the Thank You
December 4, 2012
- 5 Comments
The E-Reader Over Your Shoulder
November 12, 2012
- 2 Comments
Teachers:
Small Things That Change Lives: How Teachers Make a Difference
November 21, 2013
- 4 Comments
Triple Play: Teaching Words in Threes
July 9, 2013
- 5 Comments
Teaching:
The Real News About the Redesigned SAT
April 16, 2014
- 1 Comment
The Problem with Punctuation: Some Classroom Findings
March 14, 2014
- 3 Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
- 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
Vocabulary:
The Real News About the Redesigned SAT
April 16, 2014
- 1 Comment
Strangers in Our Midst: Words We Skip While Reading
April 9, 2014
- 4 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:
Baseball Lingo, from "Cup of Coffee" to "Southpaw"
April 8, 2014
A "Final Four" of March Madness Lingo
March 31, 2014
WordMasters:
WordMasters: Grade 8 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 5 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
Words:
"Staycation," "Bleisure," and Other Made-Up Travel Words
April 15, 2014
Scrabble Showdown: "Zen" Versus... "Geocache"?
April 9, 2014
Young readers:
Fifteen Ways of Looking at "The Woods": Jumpstarting Poetry in the Classroom
July 23, 2013
- 4 Comments
Turning the Page: Short Fiction for English Language Learners
June 17, 2013
- 2 Comments
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