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  1. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: June Edition
    Fri Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Gooooooal! We've got World Cup fever here at the Visual Thesaurus, so we've got a soccer-themed crossword for you. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  2. Wordshop

     RTI and Taking Vocabulary Personally
    Thu Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    If you are in the ed world, chances are you have heard the acronym RTI being batted around but you may not be able to explain its rationale or be able to envision how this model of "intervention" could play out in your classroom.

  3. Blog Excerpts

     A Survey of North American Accents
    Thu Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Did you grow up speaking English in America or Canada? Then you can take part in an ambitious online project to gather information about the many diverse accents of North American English. All you need is a computer with a microphone, and your voice can be heard!

  4. Word Count

     Of Leaks, Spills, and Ruptures (and Enormity)
    Wed Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    Wendalyn Nichols, editor of the Copyediting newsletter, writes:

    I've been mulling for weeks now about the difference between a leak and a spill, and the inadequacy of both terms to describe what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico.

  5. Word Routes

     The Manute Bol Theory of "My Bad"
    Tue Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    After former NBA star Manute Bol died over the weekend, tributes in the sports pages recognized his awesome shot-blocking skills (it helped that he was 7-foot-7) and his equally awesome humanitarian work in his native Sudan. Another frequently cited legacy is that Bol popularized (or even coined) the expression "my bad" as an athletic mea culpa. On the ESPN gabfest "Around the Horn," Bill Plaschke even said of the supposed coinage, "Language experts have pretty much proven this." Let's investigate.

  6. Teachers at Work

     Don't Stop Inferrin': More Thoughts on Out-of-Context Vocab
    Mon Jun 21 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Wow! What a response my last column received. Any time The Washington Post excerpts your work, you know you're on to something. My thoughts on teaching vocabulary out of literary context struck a chord with many readers, and I thought it would be beneficial for all if I answered a few questions and shared a few further thoughts this month.

  7. Word Count

     Exaggeration Has Me Killed
    Fri Jun 18 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 muses on the word "kill" and a special meaning it has in the colloquial English speech of Ireland.

  8. Candlepower

     A Time to Flout, A Time to Flaunt
    Thu Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    I listen to a lot of NPR. Unless the correspondent is doing a "man in the street"-type interview, the subjects generally appear intelligent, educated and literate. At least they used to. I've heard several malapropisms in recent weeks, some of which are so common that I figure it's time I spoke up.

  9. Word Count

     Seven Darn Good Reasons Why You Should Tell Me a Story
    Wed Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    A group of judges is gathered in court. But instead of looking grand and imperial in their robes, they appear to be naked. And, puzzlingly, they are arrayed, under blankets, in a selection of beds spread out behind the bench.

  10. Blog Excerpts

     Improve Your Iteracy Literacy
    Wed Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    As its "Cool News of the Day," Reveries Magazine has featured the latest New York Times "On Language" column by Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer on "the iteracy afflicting Facebook, Google and others." Read more here (and read here for a previous "Cool News of the Day" tied to Zimmer's column on etymythology).
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