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  1. Evasive Maneuvers

     Fiercely Real Humanism and Other Hooey in the Physical Distancing Age
    Wed Apr 08 09:20:00 EDT 2020
    Are you physical distancing or social distancing? Either way, there's a euphemism to distract you during these unprecedented times.

  2. Language Lounge

     I May Not Know Grammar, But I Know What I Like
    Fri Apr 03 14:23:00 EDT 2020
    We'll all be doing each other a great favor by paying most of our attention to the substance of what others say, and the least of our attention to the way they say it.

  3. Word Routes

     New Virus, New Words
    Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2020
    Caremongering? Quarantini? Zoom-bombing? The COVID-19 pandemic has already inspired its own lexicon of coined words.

  4. Word Count

     Is Lack of Reflection Sabotaging your Writing?
    Fri Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2020
    Have you ever used an expression like, "experience is the very best teacher?" You might want to rethink that. Preparing for reflection makes you a better writer.

  5. Candlepower

     Does It Matter What We Call a Disease?
    Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2020
    From cholera to Spanish flu to "Wuhan virus," what we call a disease reveals our fears and prejudices.

  6. Evasive Maneuvers

     Less-Transparent, Potentially Recyclable Candidates for the Bin Pod
    Mon Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2020
    Are you having a rebuilding year? Whether you're building, rebuilding, reloading, unloading, or just slowly turning to dust, euphemisms are a proven distraction from the perils of your own life.

  7. Language Lounge

     I've Been Working on the Railroad
    Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 EDT 2020
    This month marks the 50th anniversary of the merger of four railroads in the United States to create the longest railroad in the world by number of miles served. I note the anniversary as an item of linguistic curiosity, in light of the many ways that railroads and trains have made their way into popular and figurative English.

  8. Dog Eared

     Dennis Baron's "What's Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She" is a Timely Winner
    Thu Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2020
    Thanks to the prominence of pronouns and the depth of Baron's work, a Tour of the History of Nonbinary Pronouns is probably going to be the language book of the year.

  9. Word Count

     Why Writers Should Use a Secret Sauce: Tracking
    Mon Feb 24 00:00:00 EST 2020
    Here's how tracking your output — specifically, recording how many words you write each day or how much time you spend editing — can help you.

  10. Candlepower

     Suffrage and Language
    Mon Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 2020
    The woman suffrage movement introduced Americans to a new vocabulary of voting rights. Here's a centennial look back at our linguistic debt to the 19th Amendment and its advocates.
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