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  1. Training Videos

     Creating a Word List
    Thu Jul 29 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The basic steps to follow to create a word list using your Visual Thesaurus account.

  2. Word Count

     Grammar Bite: Snuggling Up to "Only"
    Wed Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    Here's a little grammar quiz from Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing.

    Pop quiz time! If I want you to play a song just for me and I don't want you to play it for anyone else, where in my sentence do I put only?

    1. Only play me a song.
    2. Play only me a song.
    3. Play me a song only.

  3. Word Routes

     "Refudiate" and Other Accidental Coinages
    Tue Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The dust has settled a bit since last week's Refudiate-Gate, when the blogosphere went into a tizzy after Sarah Palin used the word refudiate in a Twitter update — and then defended her coinage by likening herself to Shakespeare. Now that we've gotten the predictably overheated reactions from the left and the right out of the way, let's take a look at this particular Palinism with a calmer perspective.

  4. Lesson Plans

     Making Sense of Homographs
    Mon Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to make sense of some common homographs and to discover a pattern among stress homographs?

  5. Teachers at Work

     They Blinded Me With Science
    Mon Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Hello, dear "Teachers at Work" readers! I hope all is well, and that you, unlike me, have not yet begun to calculate how many days are left in the summer before school begins again. What can I say? I like to know my limits. But everyone else should chillax, as my students would say, were they not asleep on the beach.

  6. Backstory

     John Cotter, Author of "Under the Small Lights"
    Fri Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    I used to play at being a writer.

    Afternoons in Boston, in my early 20s, I'd pour three fingers of Black Bush whiskey, feed a page into my typewriter, and surround my desk with books by whoever I was reading then — Bill Knott, Marguerite Duras — and add to that bibles and newspapers. I'd open to random pages and write down whatever caught my eye, whatever seemed anachronistic or poignant, then I'd make a hash out of it.

  7. Word Routes

     "Mad Men": Capturing the Sound of the '60s
    Thu Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Just in time for Sunday's season premiere of "Mad Men," my latest "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine considers how authentically the show represents the speech of the 1960s. The creators of the AMC series, led by head honcho Matthew Weiner, are obsessive about getting the details of language right, just like all the other details of the show. But fans can be equally obsessive, on the lookout for the smallest linguistic anachronisms.

  8. Word Count

     Of Celebrations, Observances, and Circular Definitions
    Wed Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    Wendalyn Nichols, editor of the Copyediting newsletter, writes:

    Recently on the Copyediting blog, I made a comment about Flag Day, saying we celebrated it rather than observed it. This was actually a follow-up to an earlier comment about Memorial Day, when I noted that it was to be observed rather than celebrated.

  9. Blog Excerpts

     "Refudiate": The View from Oxford
    Wed Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The blogosphere has been abuzz over Sarah Palin's use of the word refudiate in a Twitter update, apparently mashing up refute and repudiate. Now OUPblog, the official blog of Oxford University Press, weighs in. "Refudiate this, word snobs!" chortles OUP lexicographer Christine Lindberg. Read all about it here.

  10. Blog Excerpts

     The Future of Electronic Reading
    Wed Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The Los Angeles Times takes a fascinating look at how electronic reading has the potential to revolutionize the concept of the book. "Books are increasingly able to talk to readers, quiz them on their grasp of the material, play videos to illustrate a point or connect them with a community of fellow readers." Read the article here.
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