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  1. Wordmasters

     WordMasters: Grade 8 Gold Division Mar-Apr '10
    Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010

  2. Blog Excerpts

     The Idioms that the King James Bible Begat
    Thu Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2010
    "Let there be light." "A fly in the ointment." "New wine in old bottles." "My brother's keeper." All of these familiar expressions entered English through the King James version of the Bible, which is about to turn 400 years old. In his new book Begat, David Crystal traces how, more than any other literary source in history, the King James Bible contributed to the stock of English idioms and proverbs.

  3. Word Count

     How the Rediscovery of a Poem Helped Kickstart the Renaissance
    Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    The world utterly forgot the Roman poet-philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus and his masterwork, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). Then in January 1417 an adventuresome papal secretary found a 500-year-old copy on a dusty shelf in a German monastery, and De Rerum began a second illustrious life that continues, still blossoming, to this day.

  4. Blog Excerpts

     Bubble Vocabulary: Words You Ought to Know But Don't
    Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    A great challenge for anyone looking to improve their vocabulary is identifying the words they don't know. Yesterday, Slate contributor Seth Stevenson gave the phenomenon a name in "Bubble vocabulary: the words you almost know, sometimes use, but are secretly unsure of."

  5. Wordshop

     Growing Students' Vocabularies, One Tree at a Time
    Thu Nov 08 00:00:00 EST 2012
    Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth planted an inspirational seed in 5th grade teacher Francesca Leibowitz's mind: "What if our class were to grow a Word Orchard by planting roots and affixes? And what if the fruits of our labor (pun fully intended) were those morphemes' derivatives?"

  6. Word Count

     Yule Love This
    Wed Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2011
    Just in time for the holiday season, Merrill Perlman takes a look at the origins of some yuletide expressions.

  7. Word Routes

     Here's a Pop Quiz: Where the Heck Did "Quiz" Come From?
    Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 EST 2015
    Quiz is a word with a background so baffling it might make you feel a bit quizzical. For Slate's Lexicon Valley podcast, I delve into the mysterious origins of quiz and its long-forgotten brother quoz.

  8. Dog Eared

     "Always Be Closing"
    Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2008

    ...in the immortal words of Alec Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross. No matter what sale you're closing, these books will help you write and communicate persuasively:

    Little Green Book of Getting Your Way

    Advertising Secrets of the Written Word

    The Irresistible Offer

    Words that Sell

  9. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: September Edition
    Fri Sep 26 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    The theme of this month's puzzle is "Back to School." Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  10. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: April Edition
    Fri Apr 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    We're still basking in the glow of Earth Day, so we have an environmentally themed crossword puzzle for you. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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