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Getting Down to Business: Formal vs. Informal Vocabulary
Tue Oct 23 00:00:00 EDT 2012
How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to choose the appropriate words for business communication?
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Candlepower
Slogans for Health
Thu Jun 18 09:00:00 EDT 2020
How important is a slogan during a global health crisis like the one we're experiencing with COVID-19? More important than you might think.
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Word Count
To Have and to Receive: Two Usages of "Have"
Fri Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2013
Noel Anenberg, a regular reader of this column and author of the forthcoming book The Dog Boy, asked me about a usage of have that implies, Anenberg writes, "the speaker's active role in the events." Compare "I had my house cleaned" and "I had my car stolen."
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Word Routes
2012 Spelling Bee: San Diego's Snigdha Nandipati Wins a "Miracle"
Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012
In the 85th Scripps National Spelling Bee, the words were as diabolical as ever, but Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California took it all in stride. When it came time to spell the final word, guetapens, a French-derived word for "an ambush, snare, or trap," she wasn't snared by its strangeness and calmly spelled it correctly.
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Announcements
Stylin', Profilin'
Mon Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2008
Greetings from new editor Ben Zimmer. You may have noticed some changes around here recently. We've been working to make the Visual Thesaurus a comfier, more personalized experience. The customized word lists have been such a big hit that we're now giving every subscriber a profile page, which you can tailor as you like.
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Word Count
Please Advise Your Verb of Choice
Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 EDT 2014
Any word in a living language can develop different meanings in different contexts. These uses of the word can have distinct tones and qualities, with the result that one goes largely unnoticed while its twin draws regular complaints. For example, my bank recently sent me a form to fill in, which included the following instruction: Please advise your Country of Birth.
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Dog Eared
Inspiration to All
Tue Dec 10 00:00:00 EST 2019
The famed copy editor's personal memoir is a joy to read and an inspiration to anyone who has toyed with the idea, but not yet taken the plunge, of learning a second language.
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Language Lounge
Just Following Directions
Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012
Technology today allows us to outsource, perhaps to "upsource," a number of tasks to the cloud — tasks that used to require some degree of focused effort, record-keeping, or mindfulness from us. Anyone who uses a GPS navigational device, whether on a smartphone or in a vehicle, can testify to its revolutionary effect on wayfinding: the means by which we orient ourselves and navigate from place to place.
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Lesson Plans
Mad-Libbing Your Way Into Modern Poetry
Mon Aug 13 00:00:00 EDT 2007
This lesson introduces students to modern poetry by letting them construct their own modern poems through a fun Mad Libs* like activity, where they must first supply words and phrases based on parts of speech clues and then plug their words into a poetic format. Then, small groups of students construct their own poetic Mad Libs for their peers based on poems of your choice.
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Department of Word Lists
The Tawdry Hucksters of Tripe
Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2009
Bob Greenman, an award-winning writer, educator, and speaker, has written two outstanding guides to vocabulary enrichment: Words That Make a Difference and More Words That Make a Difference, with illustrative passages from the New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly, respectively. We asked Bob to pick some choice words from the second volume (co-authored with his wife, Carol), and he came up with a trio of words exposing the seamy underbelly of Old Hollywood.
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