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  1. Evasive Maneuvers

     Streetwise Co-people Dust Some Crops
    Fri Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    While reading the Aug. 19 Rolling Stone and trying to wrap my brain around Matt Taibbi's latest piece on our country's ongoing financial shenanigans, I stumbled onto an article on Katy Perry, who I know very little about due to my old age.

  2. Language Lounge

     Golden Jubilee
    Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    In the Language Lounge, we raise a toast to words that are celebrating their golden jubilee, having made their first appearance in print a half century ago, in the heady days of 1960.

  3. Behind the Dictionary

     I Want my MTV (Mood, Tense, Voice)!
    Tue Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Gen-Xers like me remember MTV as the 24-hour-a-day source of music videos in the 1980s, when it stood for "Music Television." Many people today would be surprised to learn that MTV ever had anything to do with music. These days, MTV is better known as the source of reality shows like "The Jersey Shore." And now, here's something else that has nothing to do with music that you can think of when you think MTV: Conjugating verbs! When you think MTV, think "mood, tense, and voice."

  4. Teachers at Work

     Brush Up Your Shakespeare: The Bard's Words in the Classroom
    Mon Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    It's the beginning of another school year, and Shannon Reed is here with tips for bringing Shakespeare and his vocabulary into the English language arts classroom. Shannon teaches English and Theatre at an innovative new public school that uses Theatre-in-Education techniques to educate underprivileged youth in New York City.

  5. Lesson Plans

     Jump-Starting Research with the Visual Thesaurus
    Mon Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    How can the Visual Thesaurus help identify effective keywords for search engine inquiries?

  6. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: August Edition
    Fri Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    We're heading back to school in the August edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  7. Backstory

     Laura van den Berg, Author of "What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us"
    Thu Aug 26 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The title story of my collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, began with me falling in love with a word: Madagascar. I fell head-over-heels for the cadence, for the way it evoked a Jacques Cousteau-esque sense of adventure and mystery.

  8. Behind the Dictionary

     Look it Up! A Dictionary by Any Other Name...
    Wed Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    News recently broke about words like chillax and vuvuzela getting added to the Oxford Dictionary of English. Merrill Perlman, who writes the "Language Corner" column for Columbia Journalism Review, noticed that many reports of the story couldn't get the name of the dictionary right. Here is her guide for the perplexed.

  9. Blog Excerpts

     Meet the "Turducken"
    Wed Aug 25 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The Oxford Dictionary of English has announced the addition of more than 2,000 new terms. Meet the turducken ("a roast dish consisting of a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey") and other new entries in the official announcement from Oxford here, and in dictionary editor Catherine Soanes' interview with National Public Radio here.

  10. Word Count

     Free Your Writing from Buzzwords
    Tue Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    Have you used any of these words in your writing?

    • Low-hanging fruit
    • Learnings
    • Efforting
    They are buzzwords, popular industry words that people use to impress others.
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