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  1. Word Routes

     Stay Tuned for Language Mavenry
    Fri Mar 19 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    It's been a whirlwind week since the official announcement that I would be taking over the "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine, the old stomping grounds of the late lamented Language Maven, William Safire. I'm grateful for all of the warm messages of congratulation I've received, and I also remain cognizant that in taking over Safire's column, I have extremely big shoes to fill.

  2. Word Count

     Punctuation Point: The Serial Comma
    Thu Mar 18 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. Here Erin offers guidance on a stylistic point of contention, the serial comma.

  3. Wordshop

     Seeing Words as Chameleons
    Thu Mar 18 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Words are like chameleons. Just like a chameleon changes color to adapt to its environment, a word sometimes has to change forms to adapt to its context in a sentence. This might seem like a silly analogy, but if you have ever tried to teach students new words and how to use those words in original sentences, this silly analogy might benefit you (and your students).

  4. Word Count

     Misnomers and Misconceptions
    Wed Mar 17 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 looks at the common misuse of the word misnomer.

  5. Blog Excerpts

     An "On Language" Introduction
    Wed Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Visual Thesaurus executive producer Ben Zimmer has been named the new "On Language" columnist by the New York Times Magazine. The Magazine's editor, Gerald Marzorati has written an introduction for Zimmer's debut column. Read it here.

  6. Word Count

     Should Everybody Write?
    Tue Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    With the advent of the Internet, the tools for writing and publication are available to all. University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron wonders, is that really such a good thing?

  7. Blog Excerpts

     Invented Languages Q&A
    Tue Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    On the New York Times blog Schott's Vocab, readers posed questions to two experts in the field of invented languages: Paul Frommer, who created the Na'vi language for Avatar, and Arika Okrent, author of In the Land of Invented Languages. Check out their fascinating responses here.

  8. Teachers at Work

     Short But Rarely Sweet: Short Stories in the Classroom
    Mon Mar 15 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    I don't naturally love short stories, even though I do like small things: fairies, marshmallows and babies all come to mind. But in my personal reading, I prefer the meatiness of a long book, be it fiction or non-. Even in my magazine reading (and I am a devoted magazine reader), I catch myself flipping ahead to see how long an article is before I start. To my mind, the longer the better, which is why I am inordinately fond of Malcolm Gladwell's articles in The New Yorker.

  9. Announcements

     Ben Zimmer Named New York Times Language Columnist
    Fri Mar 12 00:00:00 EST 2010
    We are very pleased to announce that Ben Zimmer, executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, has just been named the "On Language" columnist for The New York Times Magazine. He will be replacing William Safire, who passed away last year after writing the "On Language" column for thirty years. Beginning with the March 21 issue of the Magazine, Ben will be writing the column on a biweekly basis.

  10. Word Count

     The Power of Short Words
    Thu Mar 11 00:00:00 EST 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 short words are more potent than long words.
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