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  1. Blog Excerpts

     "Words": A Video
    Thu Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Filmmakers Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante have put together a short video that's a real treat for visual/verbal types, using striking images to play with the ambiguities of words. The video was made to accompany the latest episode of the WNYC show Radiolab, entitled "Words." Watch the video here and listen to the Radiolab episode here.

  2. Word Count

     Realism through the Ages
    Wed Aug 11 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    Here is the latest contribution from Michael Lydon on the writer's art.

    My recent Visual Thesaurus essay, "Realism: The Truth of Fiction," set off a brisk debate in the comment section, the gist of which was, "Okay, Michael, realism is the truth of fiction, but what is this 'reality' that realism describes?"

  3. Wordshop

     Adverbs: A Horror Story?
    Tue Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    When developing writers are striving to be more "descriptive" and vivid in their creative writing, they often turn to adverbs as one of their enhancement tools (understandably — since they are words that are intended to modify or qualify verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs.) However, when students begin to learn some of the more sophisticated standards for writing, teachers often advise them to avoid adverbs and to instead reach for powerful verbs that "show" instead of "tell" about their subjects and their actions.

  4. Word Routes

     Dan Brown Lexicography: "Secret Vault of Non-Words!"
    Tue Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    A lot of silly things get written about the craft of dictionary-making, but a story that appeared last week in the London-based Daily Telegraph just might be the most nonsensical article about lexicography in recent memory. The breathless headline reads, "Secret vault of words rejected by the Oxford English Dictionary uncovered." What a scoop! Has the Telegraph blown the lid off a cabal of Dictionary Illuminati worthy of a Dan Brown novel? Yeah, not so much.

  5. Training Videos

     Using VocabGrabber to Create a Word List
    Mon Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    With VocabGrabber you can preview the vocabulary in a text, and then immediately create a word list.

  6. Behind the Dictionary

     The Gender-Neutral Pronoun: Still an Epic(ene) Fail
    Mon Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    University of Illinois English professor Dennis Baron writes:

    Every once in a while some concerned citizen decides to do something about the fact that English has no gender-neutral pronoun. They either call for such a pronoun to be invented, or they invent one and champion its adoption. Wordsmiths have been coining gender-neutral (or "epicene") pronouns for a century and a half, all to no avail.

  7. Word Routes

     Bennies and Shoobies and Caspers, Oh My!
    Fri Aug 06 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    With everybody heading out to the beach this summer, my latest On Language column for The New York Times Magazine looks at the local lingo of shore towns. Beach-related regionalisms can get quite colorful, especially when it comes to epithets for the seasonal hordes of visitors.

  8. Word Count

     That Misleading "That"
    Thu Aug 05 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Stan Carey, a professional editor from Ireland, writes entertainingly about the English language on his blog Sentence First. Here Stan warns of the perilous ambiguity that can result from incautious use of the word that.

  9. Calendar

     VT @ T+L
    Wed Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2010 - Fri Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The Visual Thesaurus will have an exhibit at the National School Boards Association's T+L Conference, held in Phoenix, AZ. Please visit us at Booth #720! Click here for conference details.

  10. Calendar

     VT @ NCTE
    Thu Nov 18 00:00:00 EST 2010 - Mon Nov 22 00:00:00 EST 2010
    The 2010 Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) will be held in Orlando, Florida. Visual Thesaurus director of curriculum development Georgia Scurletis will present "Vocabulary in Context with The New York Times Learning Network and The Visual Thesaurus," a workshop co-presented with Katherine Schulten, editor of The New York Times Learning Network. Join us on Nov. 20 from 4:15 to 5:30 pm (Asbury Room B).
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