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  1. Word Routes

     Watch Out for Etymythology!
    Fri Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Say you're reading the "About Us" page on a company's website, and they tell a little story about how they came up with a common word long ago, perhaps as part of an early advertising campaign or in the creation of a consumer product. Should you believe the story? Don't count on it! That's the lesson of my latest On Language column in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine, exploring the tricky terrain of corporate etymology — or rather, etymythology.

  2. Backstory

     Barb Johnson, Author of "More of This World or Maybe Another"
    Thu Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    For our latest installment in the Backstory series, we welcome Barb Johnson, author of More of This World or Maybe Another, her powerful debut collection of short stories revolving around Palmyra Street in New Orleans.

  3. Blog Excerpts

     A Singular Blog
    Wed Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    A new usage of the word blog is emerging, and not everyone is happy about it. As Grant Barrett writes on the blog of the Copyediting newsletter, for some people blog can now mean "a single, dated, first-person post on a web site" rather than "an entire site of such posts." But according to an informal survey, most copy editors aren't on board with the new meaning.

  4. Teachers at Work

     The Song Project
    Tue Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    As we wrap up National Poetry Month, teacher/novelist Michele Dunaway returns with more tips about teaching poetry in the classroom. In the teacher's battle to "defeat the poetry monster," Michele encourages a musical approach.

  5. Behind the Dictionary

     Prime Time for "Imma"
    Mon Apr 26 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Pay attention to the lyrics of the songs at the top of the pop charts these days, and you'll hear one slangy word used with surprising frequency: Imma (spelled in various different ways). Our resident linguist Neal Whitman investigates.

  6. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: April Edition
    Fri Apr 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    We're still basking in the glow of Earth Day, so we have an environmentally themed crossword puzzle for you. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  7. Word Count

     Punctuation Point: The Direct Address Comma
    Thu Apr 22 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. We previously heard from Erin about the serial comma, and now she offers tips for using commas for direct address.

  8. Word Count

     If You Hate "Bureaucracy," Please Fill Out This Form
    Wed Apr 21 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    We welcome back Stan Carey, a professional editor from Ireland who writes entertainingly about the English language on his blog Sentence First. Here Stan cuts through the red tape to take a long look at the word bureaucracy.

  9. Word Routes

     Two Captain on the Porches, Please...
    Tue Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    This past weekend I was pleased to take part in the annual conference of the American Copy Editors Society, held this year in Philadelphia. I was on a lively panel entitled "Your Grammar Questions Answered," with Merrill Perlman, who managed the copy desks at The New York Times for many years, and Bill Walsh, multiplatform editor for The Washington Post. For an hour and half, the ACES crowd peppered us with all manner of grammar questions, from the well-worn to the unexpected.

  10. Teachers at Work

     Annnd Scene: Wrapping Up the Playwriting Class
    Mon Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Several times throughout this school year, I've filled readers in on what's been going on in my Beginning Playwriting classroom, an 11th grade level class I introduced this year at my school. You can read about those updates here and here. At the end of March, we finished up the test run of this class with a final production, and I thought you'd like to read a bit about that experience as well as my final (for now) thoughts about why Playwriting belongs in the classroom. Call this my 11 o'clock number!
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