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  1. Dog Eared

     Julie Coleman's Lively "The Life of Slang"
    Tue Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    If you enjoyed Michael Adams' Slang: The People's Poetry, make some room on your shelf for another compelling look at slangology: The Life of Slang by Julie Coleman. Coleman's book is an enjoyable, thorough look at the purposes and particulars of slang that should be required reading, especially for newcomers to the topic. This is a textbook textbook on slang.

  2. Word Count

     Ending the Tug of War over Parallelism
    Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 2014
    Parallelism is something copyeditors obsess about and writers take little notice of. If we could meet in the middle, our sentences would be a lot happier. Parallelism is no more than matching parts of a sentence or multiple sentences grammatically. It creates balance and rhythm in the sentence and brings order and clarity to meaning.

  3. Evasive Maneuvers

     Naturally Inspired, Independent, Gifted Gobbledygook
    Thu Sep 09 09:00:00 EDT 2021
    Check out the latest fiddle-faddle and twiddle-twaddle that may send you higgledy-piggledy.

  4. Evasive Maneuvers

     Humaning in an Inhuman Year
    premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers Thu Dec 10 09:00:00 EST 2020
    Breaking news! There's a late entry in the race for Euphemism of the Year, Drivel of the Decade, and Malarkey of the Millennium.

  5. Word Routes

     The Story Behind Obama's "Shellacking"
    Fri Nov 05 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Four years ago, when then-President George W. Bush surveyed the losses suffered by congressional Republicans in the midterm elections, he memorably called it a "thumping." On Wednesday, President Obama used a similarly colorful term to describe his party's electoral woes. "I’m not recommending for every future President that they take a shellacking like I did last night," he said at his press conference. That comment led many to wonder, how did shellacking come to describe a thorough defeat?

  6. Word Routes

     "Fail" for the Win!
    Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In this weekend's New York Times Magazine, I'm the guest writer for the "On Language" column while William Safire is on vacation. I use my pinch-hitting spot to look at recent developments with the word fail, which in online usage has transformed from a verb to an interjection and a noun (and even sometimes an adjective). But truth be told, fail is only the most prominent example of a much wider phenomenon, with a whole series of expressive words getting similar treatment.

  7. Wanted

     Calling All Teachers
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    Arlene Blum, teacher at the American School for the Deaf says:

    "We have a laptop program where our kids use them for the writing program. When they see a word on the Visual Thesaurus and click on it, they get excited about it and see the subtleties of language. It's opened a lot of avenues for us. We would love more ideas on how to use the Visual Thesaurus with our kids and how to teach them more language. Our goal here is to teach them more vocabulary so they're competitive with their hearing peers."

    Teachers out there, any suggestions for Arlene? Do you have any lesson plans with the VT that you'd like to share with her and other teachers?

  8. Teachers at Work

     These Are a Few of My Favorite Things
    Tue Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2011
    Teacher/novelist Michele Dunaway writes, "as much as I preach individual choice in reading, I do believe there should be some literary works that everyone in middle and high school reads and experiences." Here Michele shares some of her favorite teaching touchstones.

  9. Blog Excerpts

     Mysteries of Vernacular
    Fri Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    Here's a project we can get behind: Mysteries of Vernacular, which presents etymological stories behind common words via beautiful papercraft animation. One word per letter of the alphabet is planned: so far they've finished assassin, clue, hearse, and pants. Check 'em out.

  10. Backstory

     Shelia M. Goss, Author of "My Invisible Husband"
    Sat Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2007

    So when are you getting married? Subconsciously the idea for my book My Invisible Husband developed from hearing the question one too many times. It tells the tale of one woman's desperate attempt to stop this age-old question posed to all women at some point in their lives.

    Being over 30, single and having no kids, people automatically assume the book is about my life. Those things are the few similarities I have with the 34 year old fictional character Nicolette (Nikki) Montana. My Invisible Husband is fiction and strictly a figment of my vivid imagination. Women who have had well meaning family members and friends invade their personal life can probably relate to Nikki and her plight.

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