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  1. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: June Edition
    Fri Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Gooooooal! We've got World Cup fever here at the Visual Thesaurus, so we've got a soccer-themed crossword for you. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  2. Evasive Maneuvers

     Mephitic Weasels in the Garden House
    Fri Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2019
    Here are some of the latest and non-greatest lengths your fellow hairless apes have gone to not say what they mean.

  3. Behind the Dictionary

     "Dadbod": A Word That Let Itself Go... All Over the Internet
    Fri May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015
    It's a little early to know what the 2015 Word of the Year will be, but I'd say we have a contender: dadbod (or dad bod). After appearing in an essay by Mackenzie Pearson, this term went viral, then nuclear, then possibly intergalactic. Dadbod has become so commonly used that I wouldn't be surprised if, somewhere near the Mars Rover, the term is validating the flabby physiques of retired Martian warlords.

  4. Contest

     And You Thought Hat Hair Was Bad
    Fri May 19 00:00:00 EDT 2006
    Dear subscribers, do you have a severe case of  Writer's Desk? Here's a photo of my -- your editor's -- disaster of a desk while I was putting together a piece about Japan last year for a big newspaper. What does your desk look like when you're writing? Send us a photo. We'll choose our favorite Writer's Desk and post it on our site. We'll send the winner a super cool Visual Thesaurus t-shirt.

  5. Teachers at Work

     Dropouts or Ivy Leaguers, Writing's the Same.
    Mon May 01 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Lori Pope runs a busy New York literary agency called Writers Represent. When she's not reading manuscripts, developing authors and closing book deals, Lori pursues another passion: Teaching writing. She leads two kinds of classes. One for post-graduate students at the Columbia Publishing Course at Columbia University. The other for high school dropouts earning their GED and Associate's degree at a school called the Interboro Institute. As you'd expect, Lori uses different techniques to teach the different classes. As you might not expect, the two groups have more in common than you'd think. Lori explains:

  6. Teachers at Work

     Students and the Art of E-Mail
    Tue Sep 04 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Hi. What did i miss in class today. i want to keep up in english

    I get a lot of e-mails. My favorites are the ones that come in from students who clearly like to prove to me how little they are using the skills I'm teaching. Thus, the group of teachers with whom I work decided to address the art of writing e-mail.

  7. Behind the Dictionary

     Inside the OED, Part 3: Across the Alphabet
    Thu Aug 14 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    In parts one and two of our interview with Oxford English Dictionary editor at large Jesse Sheidlower, we talked about how the the OED is being transformed by new electronic research methods and the creation of a continually updated online edition. In our final installment, Jesse explains how OED editors are taking a fresh approach to revisions for the dictionary's Third Edition, focusing on particularly interesting entries from across the alphabet.

  8. Blog Du Jour

     Namer's Blogs
    Wed Sep 13 00:00:00 EDT 2006

    Nancy Friedman runs a verbal-branding consultancy called Wordworking, and contributed today's "Candlepower" column on naming. She suggests these blogs on language, branding and media:

    Wordmall. "The labor of love of retired English teacher Michael Sheehan (who also contributes to the excellent online magazine Vocabula.com). Each post takes a familiar word or term -- one of my favorites is "bogus" -- and examines its history, etymology, and usage."

    The Language Guy. "The lessons of linguistics applied to advertising, journalism, politics, and society. Written by a retired linguist, this blog is invariably well researched and feisty."

  9. "Bad Language"

     Buzzwords from Hell
    Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    I heard a great joke the other day: "If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, eventually one of them would write Hey Hey We're the Monkees!" I liked it so much that I used it on my website. It came back to me this morning as I was thinking about buzzwords. I mean, how do people come up with the jargon that gets stuffed into press releases and so on?

  10. Candlepower

     "Bound" for Glory
    Thu Aug 13 09:00:00 EDT 2020
    It's a leap! It's a limit! It's all tied up! It's ready to go! The many meanings—and origins—of a familiar word.
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