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  1. Word Routes

     It's Crossword Time Again!
    Fri Feb 19 00:00:00 EST 2010
    It's time once again for the cream of the crosswording crop to converge on the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in Brooklyn, New York. Last year the nail-biting final round saw Tyler Hinman emerge victorious for the fifth consecutive year (his thrilling first win was captured in the documentary Wordplay). Will Tyler manage to pull off #6, or is it time for a new winner — like, say, last year's breakout star Dan Feyer?

  2. Wordshop

     Let Freedom Ring!
    Thu Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2010
    For Black History Month, take a look at some of the speeches that have inspired progress towards racial equality in America. Beyond looking at the historical context of each speech, students can use VocabGrabber to analyze the linguistic patterns in a particular speech to gain insight into what rhetorical devices made those spoken words so memorable.

  3. Blog Excerpts

     Language War is Over (If You Want It)
    Thu Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2010
    Earlier this month on Blog Excerpts we featured Alexandra D'Arcy's OUPblog post, "Ode to a Prescriptivist," which drew a sharp dichotomy between linguistic descriptivism and prescriptivism (personified by D'Arcy and her stern grandmother, respectively). D'Arcy's post inspired Stan Carey, a professional editor from Ireland, to write a typically thoughtful post on his blog, Sentence First.

  4. Calendar

     VT @ IRA
    Sun Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2010 - Wed Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The Visual Thesaurus will have an exhibit at the 2010 annual convention of the International Reading Association at McCormick Place in Chicago. Visit us at Booth #1813! Click here for conference details.

  5. Word Count

     Alternating Antonyms: The Power of Opposites
    Wed Feb 17 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 looks at how writers from Shakespeare to Tolstoy have understood the power of bringing opposites together.

  6. Word Count

     Grammar Bite: "Compose" vs. "Comprise"
    Tue Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2010
    Erin Brenner of Right Touch Editing provides "bite-sized lessons to improve your writing" on her engaging blog The Writing Resource. Here Erin tackles the tricky distinction between compose and comprise.

  7. Teachers at Work

     Choosing Literature in an Age of Distraction
    Mon Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2010
    We welcome back 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. Here Michele argues that to get students excited about books in this highly distracted era, choosing the right literature to read is key.

  8. Blog Excerpts

     Cheers and Jeers for "Podium"
    Fri Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2010
    "Here's one safe prediction for the Winter Olympics," writes Visual Thesaurus executive producer Ben Zimmer in the New York Times Magazine. "Competitors and commentators will use podium as a verb, as in, 'She can definitely podium here today.' And just as predictably, some observers will shudder at the word." Read the rest here.

  9. Behind the Dictionary

     "Win-Win" and the Winter Olympics
    Fri Feb 12 00:00:00 EST 2010
    Just in time for the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, linguist Neal Whitman has been thinking about a phrase that seems to guarantee victory: win-win situation. What does this "no-lose" proposition really mean?

  10. Word Routes

     SnOMG! It's Snowmageddon 2010
    Thu Feb 11 00:00:00 EST 2010
    Over the last few days, America's Eastern seaboard has seen record levels of snow... accompanied by record levels of snow wordplay. There has been a blizzard of "portmanteau words" involving snow, with snowmageddon and snowpocalypse leading the way. On Twitter, the hashtag of choice has been snOMG, compactly joining snow with the online interjection OMG. We haven't seen this much seasonal word-blending since 2008's "summer of the staycation."
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