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  1. Evasive Maneuvers

     We're All Only Humom
    Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 EST 2009
    It's in bad taste to make fun of your followers. It tends to discourage, you know, the following. Still, I can't resist gently heckling one of my recent Twitter followers who described herself as: "Newly married humom of the two cutest dogs in Twitterverse and beyond."

  2. Word Count

     How Does English Instruction Add Up?
    Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Back when I went to high school (that would be in the dark ages when our cave classrooms were lit with Survivor-style torches and we chiseled hieroglyphs onto the walls) I did really well in English, social studies, and law. But I barely survived math.

  3. Word Routes

     It's Cadillac Time!
    Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 EST 2009
    In this Sunday's "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine, I take a look at how the car brand Cadillac remains an emblem of luxury, even though Cadillac itself is no longer really "the Cadillac of cars." In the health care debate on Capitol Hill, we frequently hear high-cost health insurance plans described as "Cadillac plans." And there's another area of American culture where Cadillac continues to have outsized linguistic importance: baseball.

  4. Word Count

     Microspeaking
    Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Do you know what it means to dogfood a product? Have you ever taken part in a bug bash? Mike Pope, a technical editor at Microsoft, takes us on a tour of some of the quirky jargon that has sprung up at the software giant.

  5. Calendar

     VT @ FETC
    Tue Jan 12 00:00:00 EST 2010 - Fri Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2010
    The Visual Thesaurus will have an exhibit at the 2010 Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. Visit us at Booth #457! Click here for conference details.

  6. Teachers at Work

     Mourning and Celebrating: Lessons Learned at Stella Maris
    Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2009
    I'm in mourning this week: my school is closing. Not the one I work in now, but Stella Maris High School, a small (ultimately, apparently, too small) Catholic girls' school, which I've always described as "on the beach in Queens." It really is on the beach — just about 50 yards from the sand. When we had fire drills, we dispersed to the boardwalk. Stella might be the only school in New York City where students were routinely chastised for wearing bikini tops under their uniforms.

  7. Word Routes

     Hyping Hypallage
    Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Leave it to lexicographers to sneak a word like hypallage into a press release. The occasion is the Word of the Year from Webster's New World Dictionary (yes, it's Word of the Year season already). Webster's New World chose distracted driving as its Word of the Year for 2009, defined as "use of a cellphone or other portable electronic device while operating a motor vehicle." The press release notes that distracted driving features a "linguistic catch" that is "frequently seen in poetry": hypallage. Say what?

  8. Language Lounge

     Throwdown Catchup
    Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 EST 2009
    At a scenic dropoff near the Lounge, whereunder flows the mighty torrent of English, we have lookouts posted whose job is to spot trends. Recently they have reported back on instances of a certain class of words that are ready for a closeup: a handful of nouns formed by fusing the two parts of a phrasal verb. Such words are legion in English (setback, breakdown, frameup, washout, etc.) but we lack a handy term to designate them: snaptos? pairups? glueons? In any case, this month's Lounge is a rundown of our lookouts' pickups.

  9. Blog Excerpts

     More on "Text(ed)"
    Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Exploring a topic discussed here back in April, the British linguist John Wells considers how people are forming the past tense of the verb "to text" (often pronounced, like the present tense, as "text"). Read about it on Dr. Wells's phonetics blog here.

  10. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: October Edition
    Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    For the October edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle, we've got a spooky Halloween theme. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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