Search the Site

Your Search:
194 195 196 197 198 Displaying 1951-1960 of 3488 Results

  1. Blog Excerpts

     Pronouncing the Volcano
    Mon Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The volcano in Iceland that has disrupted European air travel goes by the impenetrable name Eyjafjallajökull. Don't know how to pronounce it? Neither does anyone else outside of Iceland. Mark Liberman of Language Log presents some outsiders' failed attempts, as well as proper pronunciations from actual Icelanders, here.

  2. Blog Excerpts

     Coming Up ACES
    Fri Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The annual conference of the American Copy Editors Society is in full swing, held this year in Philadelphia. Among the panels is one devoted to grammar questions, featuring Visual Thesaurus editor and New York Times language columnist Ben Zimmer. Even if you're not in Philly, you can follow the action on the ACES blog.

  3. Word Routes

     Here's to Your Wellness
    Fri Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    For this Sunday's "Health and Wellness" issue of The New York Times Magazine, I've contributed an "On Language" column looking at how we all started talking about wellness (as opposed to health) in the first place. The word has had an odd trajectory: from an occasional antonym of illness dating back to the 17th century, to an uneasy label for preventive and holistic approaches to health in the '70s and '80s, to an established element of our linguistic landscape in the '90s and beyond.

  4. Blog Excerpts

     David Foster Wallace's Dictionary Words
    Thu Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Last month, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin announced that it had acquired a dictionary owned by David Foster Wallace, as part of its extensive Wallace archive. Wallace's copy of the American Heritage Dictionary was full of words that the late writer had circled. The Ransom Center released a sampling of Wallace's circled words, but now Slate's Browbeat blog has revealed the complete list. It's a fascinating collection.

  5. Lesson Plans

     The Power of Words in "Charlotte's Web"
    Thu Apr 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    How can a few good words save a pig's life?

  6. Word Count

     My First Ever Click Flick
    Wed Apr 14 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    I'm a writer, not a videographer. But every once in a while I like to mix things up a bit. I fell upon the idea of creating my own video about writing thanks to Gretchen Rubin, and her blog The Happiness Project. On her truly marvelous site, she features two works she calls one-minute movies. Truth be told, her films are each a bit longer than a minute, but they inspired me.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     Beset by Acrimony
    Tue Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Have you ever noticed that some words get used by journalists and no one else? In the latest installment of Language Corner in the Columbia Journalism Review, Merrill Perlman considers such newsy words as acrimonious, beset, and temblor. Read it here.

  8. Word Count

     Sentence Life
    Tue Apr 13 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 explores how good writing is crafted sentence by sentence.

  9. Teachers at Work

     Defeating the Poetry Monster
    Mon Apr 12 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    In honor of National Poetry Month, we present some valuable tips for introducing poetry to students from Michele Dunaway, who teaches English and journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Missouri, when she's not writing best-selling romance novels.

  10. Backstory

     Katharine Weber, Author of "True Confections"
    Fri Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    After an extended hiatus, we are pleased to announce the return of the Backstory series, in which authors share the secrets that inspired their fiction. In this installment we welcome back Katharine Weber, previously featured in the Backstory series for her novel Triangle. Here Katharine tells the story behind her new novel, True Confections.
194 195 196 197 198 Displaying 1951-1960 of 3488 Results