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  1. Blog Excerpts

     How "Tweet" Got in the OED
    Fri Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    In the latest quarterly update to the Oxford English Dictionary, one entry in particular has attracted attention: tweet, previously defined only as the chirping of birds, has been expanded to refer to 140-character Twitter updates as well. The OED loosened its usual "ten year rule" to let this newcomer in.

  2. Blog Excerpts

     Clearing Up Christmas Carol Confusions
    Thu Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2012
    Christmas songs: On city sidewalks and every street corner... from Black Friday through New Year's... they're broadcast inside and out, they stick in our heads, they are parodied and rewritten, and yet many of us, even as we sing along, don't give much thought to what the words mean.

  3. Blog Excerpts

     Clearing Up Christmas Carol Confusions
    Wed Dec 25 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Christmas songs: On city sidewalks and every street corner... from Black Friday through New Year's... they're broadcast inside and out, they stick in our heads, they are parodied and rewritten, and yet many of us, even as we sing along, don't give much thought to what the words mean.

  4. Blog Excerpts

     Ain't This Good English?
    Tue Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    David Skinner's new book, The Story of Ain't, is about the controversy that surrounded the 1961 publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, which was blasted for not coming down hard enough on nonstandard words like ain't. Skinner looks at how far we've come in our view of slang and dictionaries in a piece for the Wall Street Journal, "Ain't This Good English?" And read more about Webster's Third in Ben Zimmer's Word Routes column last year celebrating the dictionary's 50th birthday.

  5. Word Count

     The Power of Place
    Thu Jun 06 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    "He's a real nowhere man, living in a nowhere land..."
    —Lennon-McCartney

    That's a great lyric in a great song, but I don't recommend describing nowhere people and places as a goal for struggling writers.

  6. Language Lounge

     Roll Another One, Just Like the Other One
    Tue Jan 05 09:00:00 EST 2021
    Have you seen these movies? Explore how movie-inspired memes become firmly embedded in the English language.

  7. Word Count

     It's a Number! It's a Word! It's Both!
    Wed Feb 29 00:00:00 EST 2012

    A friend of mine recently alerted me to an odd type of "word." See if you can guess what the following mean:

    •   l10n
    •   i18n
    •   d11n

  8. Word Routes

     Temblor Shakes the East Coast (or Was it a Tremblor?)
    Wed Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    Yesterday, the east coast of the United States was struck by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake — or, as it was frequently described in news accounts, a "temblor." Fortunately, the damage caused by the quake was limited, so instead we can contemplate the question: what the heck is a temblor? Or should the word be tremblor?

  9. Lesson Plans

     Clicking your Way to Poetry: Composing Word Association Poems with the Visual Thesaurus
    Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    How can the Visual Thesaurus help students compose word association poems?

  10. "Bad Language"

     How To Be A Freelance Journalist
    Mon Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    I used to be a freelance journalist. I gave up and went over to the dark (corporate) side where I am now a copywriter for big tech companies. This is a summary of a longer post on my blog that tries to sum up whatever lessons I can remember about being a freelance hack. Your mileage may vary.
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