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The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: January Edition
Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2010
The weather outside might be frightful, but you can cozy up by the fire with our winter-themed crossword puzzle. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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Blog Excerpts
Remembering Salinger
Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2010
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Edulinks
Bring on the Year of the Tiger!
Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2010
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Department of Word Lists
A Selection of Tony Incorvati's Favorite Words
Thu Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2010
Yesterday we talked to seventh-grader Tony Incorvati of Canton Country Day School, who has competed in the Scripps National Spelling Bee for the last two years and is going for a three-peat. We asked Tony to share some of his favorite words. And try Tony's Community Spelling Bee for some more tough words!
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Wunderkind
Spelling Whiz, Part Two: Tony Incorvati of Canton Country Day
Wed Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2010
A few months ago we interviewed sixth-grader Nicholas Rushlow of Pickerington, Ohio, who participated in the Scripps National Spelling Bee the last two years, placing 17th last spring. We were pleased to hear that another Ohio student, seventh-grader Tony Incorvati of Canton Country Day School, has also made it to the Nationals twice and, like Nicholas, has been using the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee to study for this year's bee season. We talked to Tony and his mother Nancy Incorvati about how they've been preparing.
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Blog Excerpts
To a Thesaurus
Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 2010
Franklin P. Adams, a regular at the Algonquin Round Table in the 1920s and '30s, was a master of comic verse. His best-known work is no doubt "Baseball's Sad Lexicon," an ode to the Chicago Cubs double-play combination of "Tinker to Evers to Chance." The blog Futility Closet brings to our attention another playful ode by Adams that's right up our alley: "To a Thesaurus."
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Department of Word Lists
Manhattan Magic
Mon Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2010
These memories of Manhattan in the summer of 1956 employ a number of words that appear in my book "More Words That Make a Difference," with illustrative sentences from the Atlantic Monthly.
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Blog Excerpts
Sweet Tooth Fairies
Mon Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2010
Combine sweet tooth with tooth fairy and you get sweet tooth fairy. That's the premise for The Illustrated Sweet Tooth Fairy, a website that seeks to collect such whimsical fusions as magnetic personality disorder, periodic table manners, and emotional baggage carousel. Erin McKean describes the project in the Boston Globe here.
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Word Routes
Googling vs. Bing-ing
Fri Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2010
When google, a verb meaning "to search the Internet," was chosen by the American Dialect Society as Word of the Decade (2000-09), my ADS colleague Grant Barrett wondered whether Google's trademark lawyers might have preferred it if the runner-up, blog, had won instead. It is of course a tribute to the vast popularity of Google that it has become accepted as a generic verb for online searching, but the protectors of the trademark wouldn't necessarily see it that way. Meanwhile, Microsoft, creators of the rival search engine Bing, would very much like people to use their brand name as a verb.
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Word Count
The Power of Metaphor
Thu Jan 21 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 metaphors have the power to "fuse fact and fancy."
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