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  1. Teachers at Work

     Portrait of a Principal
    Thu Oct 14 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    When I entered Edward R. Murrow High School after 22 years of teaching English and journalism at another Brooklyn high school, I entered a different world. No bells rang to begin and end periods. No hallway passes required; to go to the bathroom during class, students simply left the classroom without asking permission. In the hallways no adult ever asked, "Where do you belong?"

    Where was I? In college?

  2. Blog Excerpts

     Moynihan's Sesquipedalianism
    Thu Oct 14 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Newly published letters from longtime New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan reveal his efforts to popularize the word floccinaucinihili­pilificationism ("the futility of making estimates on the accuracy of public data"). Read about it on The New York Times City Room blog here.

  3. Word Count

     Move Your Writing Forward with Chronology
    Wed Oct 13 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    In our first writing class every September, I tell my students to print in their notebooks, big capital letters, please, that to tell a story, a writer must:

    GET A PERSON IN A PLACE

  4. Teachers at Work

     The Nitty-Gritty Essay, Part I
    Tue Oct 12 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Okay, let's be honest. I'll go on record and say it. Some students are naturally more gifted at writing essays than others. Oftentimes these are the students to whom writing simply springs forth. It doesn't matter if it's narrative, persuasive, expository or descriptive, these students' paragraphs simply flow and their choice of words seems innate. These students naturally gravitate to the honors level classes, expanding their essays in ways that make teachers' eyes tear up with joy.

  5. Word Count

     Writers, You're in the Sales Biz!
    Mon Oct 11 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Back when I was entertainment editor at a metropolitan daily, my phone used to ring several times an hour with calls from publicists. I anticipated these calls with about as much enthusiasm as a cat displays for a vet.

  6. Word Routes

     Just Say No to Nosism!
    Fri Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Last Sunday I wrote an On Language column for The New York Times Magazine about the editorial we, and all the sarcastic jokes that have been made about the presumptuous pronoun. "Nameless authors of editorials may find the pronoun we handy for representing the voice of collective wisdom," I wrote, "but their word choice opens them up to charges of gutlessness and self-importance." Since the column appeared, some of those voices of collective wisdom have risen to defend themselves.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     The Evolving Grammar of "Tweet"
    Fri Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    On Language Log, the linguist Geoffrey Pullum has some interesting observations about the Twitterism "to tweet." Pullum writes, "The verb tweet is gradually developing its own syntax according to what it means and what its users regard as its combinatory possibilities." Read his post and the extended comments here.

  8. Behind the Dictionary

     What Triggered the Rise of "Young Guns"?
    Thu Oct 07 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Linguist Neal Whitman draws a bead on the expression young guns (not to be confused with younguns), and finds that sometimes the so-called "Recency Illusion" isn't an illusion after all.

  9. Evasive Maneuvers

     Quench Your Thirst! (Within the Defect Action Levels, Of Course)
    Wed Oct 06 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    I've been embracing my adopted city of Chicago by reading a collection of Chicago Tribune legend Mike Royko's writing — namely, Sez Who? Sez Me. I haven't read Royko since I was a mere tyke (or at least a small dweeb) who was too young to fully grasp the awesomeness of Royko's hilarious, sharp, wide-ranging columns. They hold up great, and one piece on the end of the Vietnam war could pretty much be reprinted verbatim right now, at the (sorta) end of the Iraq war.

  10. Candlepower

     But Wait, There's Less!
    Tue Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Remember when marketers exhorted us to trade up, spend freely, and buy more? When grand, luxe, and premier were sprinkled like shaved truffles over ad copy? That was before the recession took a bite out of our wallets and our aspirations. Nowadays, it's fashionable (not to mention necessary) to live within one's means — or to just live without.
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