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  1. Blog Excerpts

     Need Help Pronouncing Street Names?
    Fri Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    A couple of students at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design came up with a clever project: helping foreigners learn how to pronounce local street names by hooking up street signs with some electronics that play audio recordings of the tricky Danish words. But why should expats in Denmark have all the fun? Could the same be done in the English-speaking world?

  2. Wordshop

     How to Teach Setting: Beyond Time and Place
    Wed May 29 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    When Snoopy takes out his typewriter and begins to compose a novel atop his doghouse, he always begins with "It was a dark and stormy night..." This phrase — originally appearing in a schmaltzy 19th century British novel — has come to symbolize all that can go wrong with melodramatic writing, especially the clumsy attempts of a writer trying to evoke a dramatic setting within the first sentence of a work of literature.

  3. Dog Eared

     What Writers Read
    Tue Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2007

    We occasionally ask writers about books they've read that have inspired and informed their own work. This week, we contacted novelist Katharine Weber, author most recently of the award-winning Triangle. She graciously sent us these picks:

    Krazy & Ignatz: The Kat Who Walked in Beauty by George Herriman. "The early years of Krazy and Ignatz and their complex relationship as shown in the first daily strips, in the years before Offissa Pup arrived to enforce the law. Think of Krazy as Ego, Ignatz as Id, and Offissa Pup as the Super Ego -- or just enjoy this incredibly beautiful volume as an introduction to the fantastically intriguing world of Krazy Kat."

  4. Word Routes

     The "Hipster Spelling Bee" (Sponsored by the VT!)
    Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 EST 2008
    Now in its eighth year, the Williamsburg Spelling Bee has gained a reputation as the "Hipster Spelling Bee" (thanks to the ever-hip denizens of the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn). But really, it's just an excuse for some good old-fashioned spellin' fun in a convivial crowd. On Monday night, Robert Moy was crowned the winner of this year's Bee, and the Visual Thesaurus was happy to be a sponsor for the final event.

  5. Blog Excerpts

     Has Shakespeare's Dictionary Been Discovered?
    Thu Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    Just in time for William Shakespeare's 450th birthday comes word of what could be an extremely important Shakespearean find. Two rare-book dealers have in their possession a copy of a sixteenth-century quadrilingual dictionary (bought on eBay!) that they claim belonged to Shakespeare himself. The dictionary is already known to be a favorite reference of the Bard, and the owners of this copy think the annotations are in Shakespeare's hand. But there are already many doubters. Read about it in the Guardian here.

  6. Word Count

     When the Wrong Word Just Sounds Better
    Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2015
    Intensive purposes? Slight of hand? Linguist Adam Cooper contemplates phrases whose meanings are in transition as we replace unfamiliar words fossilized with language that sounds more reasonable to our modern ears.

  7. Word Count

     Blame Excuses: Where to Point the Finger
    Tue Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    "Deer Creek blames fire on science experiment," read one headline. "Arsonist blames fire on living conditions," said another. Some people would take umbrage with both of those sentences, asserting that the finger of blame was pointing in the wrong direction.

  8. Candlepower

     The Bing Bang
    Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Microsoft's new search engine may not vanquish Google, but it certainly has captured a huge share of attention among everyone interested in brand names.

    In case you missed the news reports or the relentless ads, Microsoft launched Bing at the end of May. Almost immediately, there was speculation about what the name was intended to mean or evoke.

  9. Candlepower

     Vocab Lab: "Said Words," She Ventured
    Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    The word said has an elegant, indispensable simplicity. It's a mainstay of the journalist's art: "Five out of five editors find the noun form of the word 'overwhelm,' currently in vogue among the nation's life coaches, completely unacceptable," said Dr. Carla Ridge, founder of SSOUON (the Society to Stamp Out the Use of Overwhelm as a Noun). And in that context, exclusive use of "said" is appropriate and welcome.

  10. "Bad Language"

     How to Make Money Writing for the Web
    Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 2008

    My company, Articulate Marketing, helps big tech companies communicate better about their products and services. A large part of my work is writing editorial-style content for websites. My credentials are my work for HP, Microsoft, eBay and others.

    In the past couple of weeks, several people have asked me for advice about becoming a web copywriter, so here it is.
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