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  1. Language Lounge

     Is Now and Ever Shall Be
    Mon Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2010
    When did shall go out of fashion as the first person marker for the future tense? Or was it ever in fashion? This month in the Lounge we look at the career of English's most mismanaged modal.

  2. Lesson Plans

     A Victorian Vocabulary Challenge
    Mon Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2010
    How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to help them complete a challenging Victorian sentence completion exercise?

  3. Blog Excerpts

     Scalia vs. "Choate"
    Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2010
    Justice Antonin Scalia recently interrupted a lawyer during a Supreme Court oral argument to chastise him for using the word choate (the opposite of inchoate). What's Scalia's beef? Find out in the latest New York Times Magazine "On Language" column by Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer, now online here.

  4. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: December Edition
    Thu Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 2009
    As we ring out the old and ring in the new, we're celebrating with a New Year's-themed crossword puzzle. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  5. Behind the Dictionary

     A Few Choice Words
    Wed Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2009
    We welcome back linguist Neal Whitman, who has noticed that many educators are fond of "choice" language, as in "He made good choices." Neal plumbs the history of this usage and talks to teachers and administrators about how the words "choose" and "choice" have shifted in recent years.

  6. Blog Excerpts

     Shtick Lit
    Tue Dec 29 00:00:00 EST 2009
    What is "shtick lit"? Visual Thesaurus contributor Nancy Friedman defines it as "books perpetrated by people who undertook an unusual project with the express purpose of writing about it." Read all about the history of the gimmicky term at Nancy's entertaining blog, Fritinancy.

  7. Teachers at Work

     Lessons from English 101
    Mon Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2009
    For four years, Nathan Bierma wrote the "On Language" column in the Chicago Tribune, covering English-language issues from etymology to usage in a highly engaging style. He has also taught courses in writing and speech as an adjunct professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In this essay, reprinted from his new collection of columns, The Eclectic Encyclopedia of English, Nathan reflects on the lessons he learned teaching English 101.

  8. Blog Excerpts

     Gift Words
    Fri Dec 25 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Just in time for the holidays, Visual Thesaurus contributor Mark Peters has rounded up a selection of gift-related words and phrases for his latest "Wordtastic" column in Good Magazine — covering everything from Seinfeldian "regifting" to "shopper's block." Read it here.

  9. Word Routes

     The Origins of "Eggnog," Holiday Grog
    Thu Dec 24 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Is there any drink more seasonal than eggnog, that Yuletide mixture of sweetened milk, beaten eggs, and (at least traditionally) liquor? As we head into the peak time for eggnog consumption, let's put aside our mugs and stop to consider where the word eggnog actually comes from.

  10. Behind the Dictionary

     Bierce's "Write It Right," a Century Later
    Wed Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Jan Freeman, language columnist for the Boston Globe, has published a fascinating new book: an expanded edition of Write It Right, Ambrose Bierce's 1909 volume on English usage, "deciphered, appraised, and annotated for 21st-century readers." We caught up with Jan to ask how Bierce's century-old language peeves have held up, and what his work tells us about current usage struggles.
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