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  1. Behind the Dictionary

     I Want my MTV (Mood, Tense, Voice)!
    Tue Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Gen-Xers like me remember MTV as the 24-hour-a-day source of music videos in the 1980s, when it stood for "Music Television." Many people today would be surprised to learn that MTV ever had anything to do with music. These days, MTV is better known as the source of reality shows like "The Jersey Shore." And now, here's something else that has nothing to do with music that you can think of when you think MTV: Conjugating verbs! When you think MTV, think "mood, tense, and voice."

  2. Teachers at Work

     Chunking: Another Perspective
    Mon Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    We recently heard from Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer about the "chunking" approach to English-language instruction, which focuses on teaching students how stretches of words ("lexical chunks") tend to fall together in high frequency. Brett Reynolds, a professor of academic English at Humber College in Toronto, has long been somewhat skeptical of chunking, and we asked him to offer a contrasting perspective on the value of the approach for language teaching.

  3. Dog Eared

     One Word: "Interesting," by Jayson Iwen
    Wed Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2010
    We are pleased to present another excerpt from the new anthology entitled, One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe, published by Sarabande Books. The editor, Molly McQuade, asked 66 writers the question, "What one word means the most to you, and why?" Among the essays McQuade has collected is "Interesting," by Jayson Iwen.

  4. Dog Eared

     "Talk on the Wild Side" Is a Sharp Ode to Our Unruly, Resilient Language
    Fri Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2018
    Like most well-informed language books, this one is not going to be popular with the English-is-going-to-hell crowd. In this multifaceted yet focused book, Greene makes a powerful argument for the inherent resiliency of language, and his own sharp writing is serious support for language's power.

  5. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: September Edition
    Fri Sep 27 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    As the Major League Baseball season comes to a close and the postseason warms up, we've got a baseball-themed crossword this month. Figure it out and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  6. Word Count

     Faith in the Headlights
    Wed Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    Rosanne Cash has been writing songs for over three decades, most recently releasing the critically acclaimed album Black Cadillac in 2006. But she doesn't limit herself just to music. "My liveliest cottage industry now is writing for magazines," she says. And besides contributing essays to The New York Times, New York Magazine, Martha Stewart Living and other publications, Rosanne has also written a book of short stories and a children's book. We here at the Visual Thesaurus were thrilled to have a fascinating conversation with Rosanne about her work:

  7. Backstory

     Karen Dionne, Author of "Freezing Point"
    Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 EST 2009
    I've always wanted to be a scientist. But in the early 1970s, the pull of the hippie movement was strong. After dropping out of the University of Michigan, I married a stoneware potter, and for several years my husband and I made our living traveling throughout Michigan and surrounding states selling his work at art shows.

  8. Word Routes

     The Year in Words 2015: One Pronoun to Rule Them All?
    Wed Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2015
    As is the annual tradition, it is time once again to look back at the new and notable words of the past year. In 2015, could the most significant word have been a lowly pronoun?

  9. Word Count

     Writing As Fecund As Picasso's Sculptures
    Fri Mar 11 00:00:00 EST 2016
    A few months ago my wife and I visited New York's Whitney Museum and I wrote a column inspired by the art there that broke all the rules of realism. This month we toured a Museum of Modern Art exhibit of sculptures that Pablo Picasso created over six decades and felt a similar inspiration. "Fecund, fecund"—that's the word that kept going through my mind.

  10. Blog Excerpts

     "Rise to Vote, Sir." "Now I Won!" World Palindrome Champion Crowned
    Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    Last week we brought you coverage of the 35th American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, held in Brooklyn. But there was another wordy competition held in conjuction with the ACPT: the first-ever World Palindrome Championship. Here's a full report of the back-and-forth action from The Palindromist Magazine.
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