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  1. Blog Excerpts

     Johnson: A New Language Blog from The Economist
    Tue Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The esteemed British newsweekly The Economist has launched a new blog all about language and its relation to global politics and culture. Though the blog is newly hatched, its name is venerable: Johnson, after the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson.

  2. Word Count

     May I Show You the Matching Pant?
    Mon Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Wendalyn Nichols, editor of the Copyediting newsletter, offers useful tips to copy editors and anyone else who prizes clear and orderly writing. Here she tackles the question of how plural pants got transformed into singular pant.

  3. Word Count

     Punctuation Point: Possessing the Apostrophe
    Fri Jun 11 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing provides "bite-sized lessons to improve your writing" on her engaging blog The Writing Resource. In the latest installment of Erin's series on the correct use of punctuation, she offers tips on using the apostrophe to create possessive nouns.

  4. Behind the Dictionary

     The Greatest Love of "Awe"
    Thu Jun 10 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    A recent trip to an amusement park with his sons Doug and Adam got linguist Neal Whitman thinking about the evolution of the word awesome, and how it took such a different historical turn from its sibling awful.

  5. Wunderkind

     An Ode to "Hella"
    Wed Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Lately the Northern Californian slang word hella has been in the news, thanks to a well-publicized Facebook petition to make it the official prefix for 10 to the 27th power. Here we present a first-hand account of the cultural significance of hella from Samantha Strimling, a young journalist about to graduate from Piedmont High School in the San Francisco Bay area. We were pleased to make Samantha's acquaintance at a recent Visual Thesaurus presentation to the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

  6. Edulinks

     Summer Reading: Thinking Outside the Book
    Wed Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    The New York Times Learning Network is offering students an alternative to the run-of-the-mill summer reading lists that are being stuffed into backpacks across the nation this time of year. The Learning Network's "Student Challenge" asks students to read The New York Times over the course of the summer and to identify something that either piques their interest or catches their eye. Bonus: the Learning Network plans on featuring the best student submissions on their blog!

    Read more about the Student Challenge here.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     Most Looked-Up Words in the Times, 2010
    Wed Jun 09 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    As it did last year, The New York Times has tabulated the words that readers of the Times website click on the most to look up definitions. This year's leaders include inchoate, profligacy, sui generis, and austerity. Read all about it on the "After Deadline" blog here.

  8. Word Routes

     Let's Prepone the Tiffin: I Have to Air-Dash!
    Tue Jun 08 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Last Sunday I responded to an intriguing question from a reader of the New York Times Magazine "On Language" column, dealing with a meaning of the word revert that was previously unfamiliar to me. As I discovered, revert can mean "reply" in a number of varieties of world English, particularly the English of the Indian subcontinent. But revert is hardly the only English word that has moved on a special trajectory in Indian English.

  9. Word Count

     Don't Listen to Elmore Leonard!
    Mon Jun 07 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Michael Lydon, a well-known writer on popular music since the 1960s, has for many years also been writing about writing. Lydon's essays, written with a colloquial clarity, shed fresh light on familiar and not so familiar aspects of the writing art. Here Lydon takes issue with the novelist Elmore Leonard's "rules" against descriptive writing.

  10. Word Routes

     2010 Spelling Bee: Three Cheers for Anamika!
    Sat Jun 05 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    At the end of the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee, 14-year-old Anamika Veeramani of North Royalton, Ohio stood alone as the champion. Anamika, who tied for fifth in last year's National Bee, showed poise throughout the competition as one contestant after another fell by the wayside. Though her ride was mostly smooth, the Spelling Bee itself saw some controversy.
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