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  1. Language Lounge

     And Forget the He and She
    Mon Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2019
    John Donne's poem The Undertaking, published in the early 17th century, suggests that forgetting the he and she would be "a braver thing than all the Worthies did." In a way, that is the same problem that's currently being considered in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

  2. Word Count

     Hold That Apostrophe
    Wed Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    In her 30 year career as a copy editor, its no surprise Pam Nelson has seen her share of grammar foibles. Hey, kidding about "its!" Now a features copy editor at North Carolina's News & Observer, she also writes the newspaper's popular blog on usage called the Triangle Grammar Guide. Readers from Raleigh, Durham -- and around the world -- shoot Pam their questions, rankles, bloopers, even a photo or two. We spoke to Pam about her grammar blog:

    VT: What kinds of usage conundrums ruffle your readers?

  3. Word Count

     Word Tasting Note: "Chiaroscuro"
    Wed Aug 22 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    We'd like to welcome writer, editor, and designer James Harbeck as our newest regular contributor! His specialty is "Word Tasting Notes." "Words are delicious and intoxicating," Harbeck writes. "So why not taste them like a fine wine?" Here, he savors the word chiaroscuro.

  4. Word Routes

     On Opening Day, Remembering How Baseball Begat "Jazz"
    Wed Mar 28 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    Today is opening day for Major League Baseball, though the only game on the schedule is in far-off Tokyo, where the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics are beginning a two-game series. But let's cast our minds back to opening day a century ago. On April 2, 1912, in a Pacific Coast League game between the Portland Beavers and the Los Angeles Angels, a pitcher uncorked his "jazz ball" — and possibly helped set into motion a chain of events that brought the word jazz together with the music it named.

  5. Weekly Worksheet

     Poem in Your Pocket Day
    Thu Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    April 14th is "Poem in Your Pocket Day," and we here at the Visual Thesaurus don't want to leave you unprepared with only a bit of lint to line your pockets. This week's worksheet can inspire your students to write word association poems with the help of the VT.

  6. Language Lounge

     Found in Translation
    Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    "Circumstances almost compel us to learn English, and this lucky accident has given us the opportunity of access into the richest of all poetical literatures of the world." It sounds like an idea that could be expressed today, but it was in fact written almost 75 years ago by a great artist who is our guest this month in the Poetry Corner.

  7. Word Count

     How to Survive the Feast or Famine of Freelance Writing
    Thu Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2022
    No matter how much work you have, learn how to get through feast and famine as a freelance writer.

  8. Backstory

     John Shors, author of "Beneath a Marble Sky"
    Sat Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    In 1999, my wife, Allison, and I were traveling throughout India during the midst of a four-month backpacking trip in Asia. We spent several days in northern India at the Taj Mahal. Our time left there an indelible mark on me and spurred me to dedicate the next five years to writing "Beneath a Marble Sky," a novel based on the story behind the creation of the Taj Mahal.

    By luck rather than design, we arrived at the mausoleum early and were the first visitors onto the grounds. Stepping through the vast sandstone gate was like immersing myself into a photo. The Taj Mahal glistened in the light of dawn, glowing like a sculpted ember. The day was still, the only movement from birds wheeling about the tear-shaped dome.

  9. Weekly Worksheet

     Helping Students in a Sea of Words
    Fri Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    Unless students are nautically inclined, they might not be able to distinguish different geographical terms relating to bodies of water like strait or gulf. Here's a worksheet teachers can use to help them navigate the tricky sea of words.

  10. Evasive Maneuvers

     Gadswookers! Catastrophic Euphemism Failures
    Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2015
    Turns out the American Dialect Society callously disregarded my selection of conscious uncoupling (Gwyneth Paltrow's cuckoo-bananas term for divorce) for Euphemism of the Year. Instead, these linguists, lexicographers, word mavens, and rogue wordanistas selected EIT: an abbreviation of enhanced interrogation techniques, which is a euphemism of a euphemism.
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