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  1. Blog Excerpts

     Parliamentary Language
    Fri May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Contentini, a UK-based content strategy firm, has analyzed 75 years of British parliamentary debates to determine trends in the political use of language. Key words like stakeholder and innovation have risen in usage, while others like industry and men have fallen. Read about it here.

  2. Word Count

     Writing Packed with Life
    Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Yes, it's been said before, but let's say it again: writing lives on the life writers pack into their writing. Get only a little life into your poetry or prose, and your writing will soon starve, dwindle, and die. Get a lot of life into your poetry or prose, and your writing may live forever.

  3. Word Routes

     The Biggest Misnomer of All Time?
    Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    When Columbus arrived in the New World 517 years ago, this pivotal moment of cultural contact was fraught with misunderstanding. Upon finding the native Lucayans on the small Caribbean island where he made landfall, Columbus dubbed them Indians, under the mistaken impression that he had navigated all the way to the eastern shores of Asia. Explorers and cartographers quickly figured out that Columbus was utterly mistaken, and yet even now his monumental error lives on in the word Indian to refer to indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.

  4. Word Count

     How to Protect the Important From the Urgent
    Thu Mar 25 09:00:00 EDT 2021
    Explore three steps that will help make your writing seem more urgent.

  5. Word Routes

     Rogues Gallery
    Fri Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2016
    With the new Star Wars movie Rogue One opening today, it's a fitting moment to look at how the meaning of rogue has evolved over the years, from one who is deceitful and worthless to today's connotation of the charming scoundrel.

  6. Word Routes

     New Light on "Uncle Sam"
    Thu Jul 04 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    Last December I commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of what was then the first-known appearance of "Uncle Sam" as a personification of the United States, which turned up in a Bennington, Vermont newspaper. Now, just in time for the Fourth of July, comes new evidence that "Uncle Sam" was in use as early as 1810, more than two years before the phrase's popularization in the War of 1812.

  7. Word Count

     Why Our Writing Improves As We Age
    Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    At age 56, I'm not yet a senior. But I'm starting to become constantly surprised by how young other people are — doctors, CEOs, even heads of government (the president of Kosovo is only 38, the president of Finland is 42 and even Barack Obama, at 52, is younger than me.)

  8. Language Lounge

     All About (S)eve(n)
    Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006
    250 years ago this month, on May 15th 1756, the tipping point in widespread European conflict came when England declared war on France and her allies, marking the official beginning of what came to be called the Seven Years' War. In commemoration, the Lounge has gone massively rococo with mock Chippendale furniture, and secured perukes for all the gentlemen and ruffs for the ladies. The Visual Thesaurus is celebrating by collecting together and examine all things seven.

  9. Lesson Plans

     Find That Meaning: A Word Game for the iPad
    Wed Feb 29 00:00:00 EST 2012
    In this homographs lesson, students discover that some common words have some less common meanings. Students will work in teams to compete in a "Find that Meaning" competition using iPads and Visual Thesaurus word maps.

  10. Blog Excerpts

     So Long, Hyphen
    Sat Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    "About 16,000 words have succumbed to the pressures of the Internet age and lost their hyphens," says a recent report from Reuters. Why did they disappear? Read the story here.
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