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  1. Word Routes

     Mixing and Mashing Words (With a Little Moshing)
    Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2009
    A blog commenter recently described the linguistic situation in her household as "a mixmash of English and German." As she later explained, the word mixmash was invented by her daughters to describe their experiences growing up bilingual. Now, mixmash is not a word you'll find in any dictionary, but it's easy enough to appreciate it as a mash-up of mix and (mish)mash. It's a wonderful example of how speakers of English are constantly mixing and mashing the lexicon, and yet somehow we manage to understand each other just fine.

  2. Language Lounge

     Pieces of April
    Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 2005
    Can a word's inner life be revealed by the company it keeps? We set off this month to find out just that, examining April through the prism of the Visual Thesaurus and some other word investigation tools we keep in that big sideboard over against the wall of the Language Lounge.

  3. Teachers at Work

     Reading "Our Town," Part II
    Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    In my last column, I began an overview of how Thornton Wilder used language in his classic American play, Our Town. Teachers, you'll want to read that column before picking up here, which points out several more ways Wilder adeptly used words in his play. You'll be able to use these ideas in your classroom.

  4. Word Count

     "And/Or": A Source of Vagueness, Clarity, or Both?
    Mon Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    A recent blog post decried the use of and/or. Rich Adin makes the case that the conjunction is inaccurate. This, at least, is an improvement over the popular argument that and/or is "hideous" or "monstrous," but it isn't entirely true, either.

  5. Teachers at Work

     Get Students Writing Right: Tips for the Content Area Classroom
    Fri May 09 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    Writing opportunities within the content area classroom can be exciting and motivational, but some content area teachers feel they are not up to the task of "teaching writing." The first step in assuaging this authentic concern is to let content area teachers off the hook. They are not writing teachers. Content area teachers can appreciate strongly supported arguments and easily spot a well-turned phrase, but they should not be held accountable for teaching the skills needed to accomplish these writing goals. Their field of expertise may be science or history or math, and because these teachers have done quite a bit of writing in their own academic careers, they are experts in the type of writing required in their respective disciplines. These rich backgrounds help content area teachers make indispensable contributions to the refinement of writing skills. Here are a few thoughts and suggestions that might encourage more content area teachers to infuse writing into their curriculum.

  6. Word Count

     When a Word Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
    Mon Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2013
    In a comical scene in the film The Princess Bride, the character Inigo Montoya has finally had enough of hearing the bad guy Vizzini say "Inconceivable!" when things are not only conceivable, but just keep happening. Montoya is finally moved to say, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

  7. Word Count

     17 Things to STOP Doing to Improve Your Writing
    Wed Mar 14 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    Negative writing tips, I find, can be just as helpful as a positive ones. And, often, they're far more memorable. Here, then, are 17 things you should stop doing immediately, if you want to improve your writing.

  8. Teachers at Work

     Creating a Community of Learners
    Wed Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2006
    When Miguel Guhlin isn't spearheading groundbreaking technology-in-the-classroom initiatives as Director of Instructional Technology Services for the San Antonio, Texas, school system, he publishes his views on 21st century learning on his respected blog, Around the Corner, read by thousands of educators around the world. We caught up with Miguel for a provocative, and inspiring, discussion.

  9. Backstory

     Susan Henderson, Author of "Up From the Blue"
    Wed Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 2011
    When Tillie Harris goes into premature labor, she has no one to turn to but her estranged father. Their relationship has been strained since Tillie was eight years old and her mother mysteriously vanished. Up From the Blue follows young Tillie's startling discoveries about what happened to her mother, as well as grown Tillie's struggle with a relationship that’s stuck in the past.

  10. Language Lounge

     Let Internet Randos Be Your Guide
    Thu Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2021
    Online review aggregators collect information of a kind that used to be ephemeral but now is more enduring. Is this a good thing? I'm not so sure.
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