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  1. Edulinks

     Bone up on the Constitution: It's the Law
    Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    Tomorrow is September 17th — otherwise known as Constitution Day, a day when all U.S. educational institutions that receive federal funding are required by law to pay a little attention to the document that was signed on September 17, 1787.

    Teachers, check out the following links to discover some fun ways to spend Constitution Day.

  2. Word Count

     Aural Spellings
    Tue Sep 15 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 examines what happens to the spelling of words when we follow our ears.

    My daughter, who is six, is feeling the power of the written word. She's taken to taping notes all over the house — labels for shelves and rooms and drawers, and messages to us that begin "Dere parints."

  3. Blog Excerpts

     How to Describe Gibberish
    Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Eyewash! Piffle! Twaddle! Mumbo jumbo! Want to know twenty ways to describe nonsensical speech? Maeve Maddox of Daily Writing Tips has the answers here.

  4. Book Nook

     I Spy: A Word Scavenger Hunt
    Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In this selection from Inside Words: Tools for Teaching Academic Vocabulary, Janet Allen presents a great instructional activity to make words come alive for students, encouraging them to see how vocabulary relates to real-world context.

  5. Word Routes

     Hut! The Story Behind a Football Interjection
    Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    The National Football League kicked into gear this past weekend, accompanied by the usual hoopla from the sports media. In honor of the start of the football season, the television show "NFL Films Presents" put together a segment on the word hut, an interjection shouted by quarterbacks when initiating a play. They asked a number of NFL players and coaches their theories about the origin of hut, and then called upon a linguist to set the record straight. That linguist happened to be me, so I found myself unaccountably sharing air time with the likes of Don Shula and Tom Coughlin.

  6. Word Count

     Standard by Mistake
    Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    What happens when a misspelling gets enshrined in official documentation? Mike Pope, a technical writer and editor at Microsoft, looks at some embarrassing typographical errors that continue to linger in the world of computer programming.

  7. Contest Corner

     Wearing Many Hats
    Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    For this month's contest, we're exploring some of the biographical tidbits you may not even know exist in the Visual Thesaurus treasure trove. For example, if you click on the red meaning bubble associated with Benjamin Franklin, you will learn that he was "an American Revolutionary leader," a "scientist," a "writer," and a "printer." The challenge: find as many historical figures as you can in the VT database who have at least three "type of" relationships in their maps.

  8. Candlepower

     Brand Man-agement
    Thu Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    Have you heard? This economic slump we're in isn't just a recession: it's a mancession — a downturn that hurts men more than women. The term has been popularized by a University of Michigan economics and finance professor, Mark J. Perry, whose Carpe Diem blog employs lots of charts and graphs to drive home the point that male workers are taking it on the chin.

    That's bad news. But it turns out there's one sector men in which men are doing just dandy. I refer, of course, to the market in man-words and man-brands.

  9. Word Routes

     Celebrating the Beatles: Goo Goo Ga Joob!
    Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Today is a big day for Beatles fans: the band's entire catalog is being reissued in digitally remastered form, and the video game "The Beatles: Rock Band" is also set for release. And what better day than 09/09/09, considering the band's love of the number nine (enneaphilia?), from "The One After 909" to "Revolution No. 9." In honor of the latest wave of Beatles nostalgia, I've been mulling over a bit of nonsense from the fertile mind of John Lennon: the timeless chant heard in "I Am the Walrus," "Goo goo ga joob."

  10. Word Count

     Why You Should Massage Your Mangoes
    Tue Sep 08 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    I bought a new chair recently. This decision was a key part of my ongoing campaign to improve my wretched back. I'm also seeing a personal trainer and going to a restorative yoga class. As you can probably tell, I'm both motivated and a little bit desperate.
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