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  1. Word Routes

     The Year of "Tender Age"
    Mon Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2019
    For the first time ever, a euphemism been chosen as the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year. The winning term has an innocent sound that masks a sinister reality.

  2. Language Lounge

     2019: The International Year of Indigenous Languages
    Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2019
    Unesco chooses a cultural theme to highlight and celebrate every year. Now, in 2019, indigenous languages are ready for a long overdue closeup.

  3. Dog Eared

     "Talk on the Wild Side" Is a Sharp Ode to Our Unruly, Resilient Language
    Fri Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2018
    Like most well-informed language books, this one is not going to be popular with the English-is-going-to-hell crowd. In this multifaceted yet focused book, Greene makes a powerful argument for the inherent resiliency of language, and his own sharp writing is serious support for language's power.

  4. Candlepower

     Brand Names of the Year for 2018
    Mon Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2018
    What will you remember about 2018? Among everything else, I'll remember some brand names that made headlines or just piqued my professional curiosity. Here are my top ten.

  5. Word Count

     How to Deal with Writer's Guilt
    Fri Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2018
    The job of writing keeps us feeling guilty for either writing too much or not writing enough. Here are three specific ways to manage writing and guilt so that the pleasure of the first can overwhelm the need for the second.

  6. Evasive Maneuvers

     Deinstitutionalizing Policy Time and Other Mischaracterizations
    Fri Dec 07 00:00:00 EST 2018
    It was recently revealed that the daily agenda of the most powerful person in the world included policy time (in addition to executive time). It's my policy to crank out a new roundup of euphemisms each month. Around these here parts, it's always malarkey time.

  7. Language Lounge

     French Letters and Their Uses
    Mon Dec 03 00:00:00 EST 2018
    If we start from the fact that language is first and foremost a spoken activity, the methods by which people have extended its powers to writing offer a fascinating lens into human history.

  8. Candlepower

     Like Wildfire
    Wed Nov 21 00:00:00 EST 2018
    In the American West, wildfires have become both more frequent and more destructive. With this ominous shift has come a new vocabulary for describing fire and its outcome – and new attention to some of the oldest words in our language.

  9. Word Count

     How to Read More Books
    Mon Nov 19 00:00:00 EST 2018
    If you want to be a writer, you need to be a reader, first. Here's how to fit more reading into your schedule, no matter how busy you are.

  10. Evasive Maneuvers

     Work-Life Malarkey in the Entrepreneurial Economy
    Wed Nov 07 00:00:00 EST 2018
    The well of drivel will never run dry, so let's amble through the latest and worst euphemisms I've collected during the first month of my second decade as a euphemism columnist.
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