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  1. Word Count

     It's Not Unusual
    Tue Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2009
    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 why a seemingly simple rule of English, whether to use a or an as an indefinite article, can cause confusion.

  2. Blog Excerpts

     Early WOTY Nominees
    Tue Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2009
    The early nominations have been posted for the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year selection. ADS members who specialize in following language trends, including Visual Thesaurus executive producer Ben Zimmer, have submitted their lists of nominees. Read all about it here.

  3. Teachers at Work

     Visual Impact, Visual Teaching
    Mon Dec 21 00:00:00 EST 2009
    We caught up with Timothy Gangwer, a pioneer in the field of visual learning and the author of Visual Impact, Visual Teaching, and asked him some hard questions about how teachers can expand their teaching methods to keep pace with the current generation of visual learners.

  4. Word Count

     Say Goodbye to the Decade with No Name
    Fri Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2009
    As we bid farewell to the strangely nameless first decade of the 21st century, University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron takes a look back at the lingo that enlivened the last ten years.

  5. Behind the Dictionary

     Quotable Moments of '09
    Thu Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, is constantly on the lookout for new quotations that might make the cut for the next edition of his authoritative quotation dictionary. Below, find out what he thinks are the top ten quotations of 2009.

  6. Word Count

     Term Limits: A Profession Ponders Its Very Name
    Wed Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Last week, members of the Special Libraries Association were asked to vote on a radical renaming of their organization: it was proposed that the SLA become the Association for Strategic Knowledge Professionals, or ASKPro. The contentious wrangling over the proposal revealed deep ambivalence about the words library and librarian in the digital age. We asked Stan Friedman, senior research librarian for Condé Nast Publications, for some insights into the terminological debate.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     "Have the Rules Changed?"
    Wed Dec 16 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Jack Lynch, author of The Lexicographer's Dilemma, has a new blog on the Psychology Today website entitled "Proper Words in Proper Places." His latest post explores how the rules of language, like the rules of dress, do not follow any official guidelines. Read it here.

  8. Word Routes

     A New Political Eponym Barges in
    Tue Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2009
    This time last year, David Letterman was making jokes about Blagojeviching, playing on the name of disgraced Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. Now we've got a brand-new political eponym on our hands: Salahi is being used as a verb meaning "to gate-crash an official event."

  9. Teachers at Work

     Why Literary Analysis is Subjective
    Mon Dec 14 00:00:00 EST 2009
    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. Michele has an important lesson for those who teach and study literature: your analysis always depends on your personal perspective.

  10. Word Count

     Does "Foodie" Make You Cringe?
    Fri Dec 11 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Veteran copy editor John E. McIntyre holds forth entertainingly on all manner of issues related to language and editing on his blog, "You Don't Say." Here McIntyre wonders why we're stuck with the term foodie when there are so many serviceable gastronomic alternatives.
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