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  1. Behind the Dictionary

     Get Your Creak On
    Tue Jan 31 00:00:00 EST 2012
    Back in December, a small study by researchers at Long Island University got a lot of news play. Maybe you heard about it. It was about the supposed recent increase in young American women's use of vocal fry — the lowest vocal register, the one with a creaky quality to it.

  2. Blog Du Jour

     Lexicographer's Blogs
    Wed Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Word lovers, listen up: Grant Barrett, creator of the Double-Tongued Word Wrester's Dictionary and a lexicographer at the Oxford University Press, recommends these blogs on language:

    Separated by a Common Language. Lynne Murphy is an American linguist working and living in the U.K. She writes about variations between British and American English.

    Language Log. One of the smartest group blogs on any topic anywhere on the Anglophone Internet, featuring respected linguists and grammarians commenting on the mundane, arcane, and profane. A key to the blog's success is that the various posters disagree as often as they agree? meaning more than one school of thought is represented, rather than whatever is faddish or fashionable.

    Verbatim, the Language Quarterly. A neat and nifty newsletter with fun, funny, and quirky articles from a variety of authors. Edited by my Oxford University Press colleague Erin McKean.

  3. Word Routes

     Anointing the Crossword and Palindrome Champions
    Mon Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    For those who like their wordplay competitive, this weekend featured two high-stakes contests: the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament and the first-ever Symmys Awards for the year's best palindromes. The top contenders at the ACPT were the same names that have dominated the crossword world for the past few years, while the surprise overall winner of the Symmys was a palindromic novice.

  4. Backstory

     Joshua Henkin, author of "Matrimony"
    Fri Nov 02 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    When I began to write Matrimony, I was thirty-three and living in Ann Arbor, where I had gone to graduate school; my first novel, Swimming across the Hudson, had recently been published. I had also just met the woman I would eventually marry, and though our relationship would be long-distance for the first two years and we wouldn't get married for several years after that, I knew from the start that this was the person I would spend my life with. And I sensed, in knowing this, that big changes lay ahead, changes I couldn't yet comprehend.

  5. Language Lounge

     Of Dialects, Vernaculars, and Code-Switching
    Thu Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2022
    We fit our speech to the circumstances we're in. Is there a basis for judgment when someone's preferred way of speaking is different from yours?

  6. Dog Eared

     Summer Reading: Books About Language!
    Wed Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2007

    If you love language, you must check out these book picks before your next read! We contacted language authority Erin McKean to ask her for her summer book suggestions. The editor of The New Oxford American Dictionary and the fantastic Dictionary Evangelist website, she graciously sent us this -- amazing -- reply:

    I love recommending books about language to people -- even to people who haven't asked for any language book recommendations, and who have, in fact, asked me for something completely different, such as the time, or directions.

  7. Teachers at Work

     Slang and the Achievement Gap
    Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2008
    Last week, Visual Thesaurus contributor and New York public school teacher Shannon Reed shared some experiences about the richness of student slang that she had encountered. Here is a counterpoint to Shannon's piece, from a new member of the VT sales staff, Elissa Seto. Before joining the VT team Elissa taught science at an urban middle school in the South Bronx. While a fan of slang, Elissa is also concerned about how student reliance on nonstandard speech may be symptomatic of what educators call the achievement gap.

  8. Backstory

     Evie Wyld, Author of "After the Fire, a Still Small Voice"
    Mon Jul 19 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    One of the most important moments in writing my novel, After the Fire, a Still Small Voice, came when I realized I could reach outside of reality.

  9. Candlepower

     Optimizing Your Press Releases For the Web
    Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2008
    According to David Meerman Scott, author of the bestselling book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR, the old rules of PR no longer apply. Thanks to the Internet, marketing and PR professionals shouldn't write press releases for journalists in the hope of getting ink.

  10. Backstory

     Deborah Noyes, Author of "Captivity"
    Wed Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    As soon as I read about them, I was drawn to the real-life rags-to-riches story of the Fox sisters. Two ordinary farm girls from Western New York, Maggie and Kate Fox gripped their community by claiming to be able to communicate with the dead. They became celebrities in the bargain, sowing the seeds of an international religious movement that would eventually claim a million followers.
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