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WordMasters: Grade 7 Blue Division Jan-Feb '10
Mon Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2010
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WordMasters: Grade 7 Gold Division Jan-Feb '10
Mon Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2010
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Wordmasters
WordMasters: Grade 8 Blue Division Jan-Feb '10
Mon Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2010
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WordMasters: Grade 8 Gold Division Jan-Feb '10
Mon Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2010
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January-February WordMasters Challenge
Tue Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 2010 - Tue Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2010
It's time for the second WordMasters Challenge of the school year! Click here for details.
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VT @ TCEA
Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 EST 2010 - Sat Feb 13 00:00:00 EST 2010
The Visual Thesaurus will have an exhibit at the 2010 Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) at the Austin Convention Center. Visit us at Booth #532! Click here for conference details.
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Wordmasters
WordMasters: Grade 5 Gold Division Jan-Feb '10
Mon Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2010
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A Likely Story
Fri Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 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 takes a look at the predilection of headline-writers for the word likely.
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Multiple Choice
Thu Jan 14 00:00:00 EST 2010
Neal Whitman's recent column on the language of "choice" in education ("Make good choices!") got me thinking about how choice and choose are used in marketing. From the flight attendant's cheery "We know you have a choice when you fly — thanks for choosing us!" to IKEA's "Choose your own entertainment adventure," we're constantly encouraged to select from an array of options. But what does all that choice mean?
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Blog Excerpts
The 800-Word Myth
Thu Jan 14 00:00:00 EST 2010
Have you heard that "the average teenager uses just 800 words in daily communication"? Despite being widely reported in the media, this factoid simply isn't true. Linguist David Crystal debunks the myth here.
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