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  1. Wordmasters

     WordMasters: Grade 7 Gold Division Mar-Apr '10
    Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010

  2. Wordmasters

     WordMasters: Grade 8 Blue Division Mar-Apr '10
    Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010

  3. Wordmasters

     WordMasters: Grade 8 Gold Division Mar-Apr '10
    Wed Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2010

  4. Candlepower

     Red Pen Diaries: Stop Abbreviation Abuse Now!
    Tue Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    And now from our friends at Editorial Emergency, a brief rant against abbreviated jargon, from "fail" to "convo": "If you feel like an idiot saying something out loud, don't say it in writing either."

  5. Behind the Dictionary

     Why the "Doughnut Hole" Metaphor is Inside Out
    Mon Mar 29 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The recent passage of health care legislation in the U.S. Congress has got linguist Neal Whitman ruminating over a reform-related metaphor that doesn't make much sense when you stop to think about it.

  6. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition
    Fri Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    We're bidding farewell to winter with a seasonal crossword puzzle. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  7. Department of Word Lists

     On the Road Again: Images of a Privileged Childhood
    Thu Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    These childhood memories employ a number of words that appear in my book More Words That Make a Difference, with illustrative sentences from the Atlantic Monthly.

  8. Word Count

     Gaelic Lore Galore
    Wed Mar 24 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 enlightens us about an Irish word borrowed into English, galore.

  9. Blog Excerpts

     Acquiring the @ Symbol
    Tue Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    New York's Museum of Modern Art has made an unusual acquisition. According to a blog post by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of the museum's Department of Architecture and Design, MoMA has acquired the @ symbol.

  10. Word Count

     Red Pen Diaries: Caring About the Oxford Comma
    Mon Mar 22 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Last week we heard from Erin Brenner about the so-called "serial comma" or "Oxford comma." For a counterpoint, here is a spirited defense of the Oxford comma by Megan Zinn, an associate of our good friends at Editorial Emergency.
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