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  1. Word Count

     Five Simple Rules of Design Every Writer Should Know
    Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    I was invoicing a client recently and realized I didn't have his address. I'd worked for him only briefly, by email — we'd never even spoken by phone — but I knew his group had a website. Quickly, I Googled him to find the "contact us" page and, fortunately, it contained his street address. Better yet, the site was beautiful — it featured gorgeous photography and was easy to navigate.

    But there was one big problem.

  2. Word Count

     Fly Away Home
    Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 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 tackles the question, "Why do we say a baseball player 'flied out,' not 'flew out'?"

  3. Lesson Plans

     Mind Your Pints and Quarts: Making Sense of Liquid Measurement
    Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to learn the U.S. customary system of measuring liquids and to apply their knowledge in solving math problems?

  4. Language Lounge

     Color by Number
    Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    A rose by any other name is . . . possibly hex FF E4 E1 or decimal 255 228 225. This month in the Lounge we look at the business and the pleasure of color names in English.

  5. Blog Excerpts

     More on Safire
    Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    Tributes continue to pour in for the late great William Safire and his thirty-year run as New York Times Magazine language columnist. The latest come from Visual Thesaurus contributor Mark Peters in GOOD Magazine and from former Safire research assistant Aaron Britt in Newsweek.

  6. Department of Word Lists

     Ardent Thoughts on a New School Year
    Wed Sep 30 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Once again award-winning writer and educator Bob Greenman takes us on a journey through words selected from More Words That Make a Difference, a delightful book illustrating word usage with passages from the Atlantic Monthly. Here Bob muses on the start of another school year, with an ardor that is far from noncommittal.

  7. Teachers at Work

     "Once More Unto the Breach, Dear Friends..."
    Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    "...Once more, or close the wall up with our English dead." Appropriate words to start a new school year.

    See what I did there? Our English dead? Like, our English Language Arts dead? Funny stuff, right?!

    Sorry. I'm writing this during the second week of school. Just having pants on is a major accomplishment.

  8. Blog Excerpts

     William Safire, R.I.P.
    Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    Linguistically oriented bloggers reflect on the passing of "On Language" columnist William Safire.

    The Lexicographer's Rules

    Languagehat

    Wordorigins.org

    Wishydig

  9. Word Routes

     Remembering the Language Maven
    Mon Sep 28 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    William Safire passed away over the weekend at the age of 79, and his loss is felt particularly strongly by those who loyally followed his "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine for the past three decades. Safire retired from his Pulitzer Prize-winning political column for the Times in 2005, but he continued to relish his role as "language maven" to the very end. He was not simply a pundit on matters political and linguistic, however: he was also an extremely generous man, both publicly in his philanthropic work with the Dana Foundation and privately with friends and colleagues.

  10. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: September Edition
    Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    You'll need to know your current events for the September edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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