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  1. Lesson Plans

     The Continents and Oceans of the World
    Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    How can students use the Visual Thesaurus and mnemonics to help them identify and memorize the continents and oceans of the world?

  2. Blog Excerpts

     Business Buzzwords to Avoid
    Thu Jul 30 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Impact. Ideate. Interface. Those are just 3 of 30 business buzzwords that you should remove from your vocabulary. See goodcopybadcopy for the whole list.

  3. Teachers at Work

     Thinking About Education When I Don't Have to Educate
    Wed Jul 29 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    While I was visiting friends over the 4th of July weekend, we all panicked when a flyer from a local store advertised a big "Back to School" sale. If you were in the Boston area, you may have heard me scream, "I have ten more weeks! TEN MORE WEEKS!" Perhaps you recognize that horror. But, don't worry, folks, most teachers have at least a month left. No need to get up from the hammock yet.

  4. Department of Word Lists

     Peel or No Peel?
    Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Have you ever tasted something that was so wonderful that experiencing it for the first time transported you rapturously to another plane, the food itself rising to the level of the divine, the perfect essence of what that food was supposed to be?

  5. Word Routes

     The Mystery of "Cronkiters"
    Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Last week, after the death of Walter Cronkite, I wrote about how two words seemed irrevocably linked to the great newsman: avuncular and anchorman. Obituaries claimed that the term anchorman was first coined to refer to Cronkite, but as I wrote in Slate, this isn't exactly true: there were earlier "anchormen" on television, even if they didn't play quite the same coordinating role as Cronkite and his emulators. The Associated Press obituary, which was picked up by news outlets around the world, followed up the anchorman claim with another linguistic nugget about Cronkite, and this one is on even shakier factual ground.

  6. Word Routes

     Mnemonics, from Roy G. Biv to Mary's Violet Eyes
    Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Earlier this week in the Book Nook section of our Educators page, we featured an excerpt from Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher's Learning Words Inside and Out, all about how teachers can use mnemonics to help students commit words to memory. Some of these memory aids are extremely well-known: most everyone knows Roy G. Biv spells out the initial letters of the seven colors in the spectrum, for instance. But there's an endless number of other mnemonic devices that get passed down from generation to generation, covering just about every field of human endeavor.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     When a Gerundy-Looking Word Isn't a Gerund
    Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Even the New York Times can get tripped up on the difference between gerunds and participles. In her Tip of the Week, Copyediting newsletter editor Wendalyn Nichols explains how a punctuation error in the Times is symptomatic of confusion about words ending in -ing.

  8. Book Nook

     Mnemonics: Memory Builders
    Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    If "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" saved you in learning the order of operations in mathematics, then you should check out what Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher have to say in Learning Words Inside and Out about using keyword mnemonics to help commit words to memory.

  9. Behind the Dictionary

     The Bountiful Lexicon of Baseball, Part 2
    Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Last week, in part one of our interview with author Paul Dickson, we talked about the work that went into the new edition of his Dickson Baseball Dictionary — a thousand-page monument to baseball's bottomless linguistic riches. Now in part two, Dickson discusses the diverse influences on the language of baseball, and how the sport has become a metaphorical source in politics and elsewhere.

  10. Word Count

     Amazon Fail 2.0: Orwell Removed from Kindles
    Tue Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    We welcome back University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron, who reflects on some disturbing news that emerged recently about Amazon.com's e-book reader, the Kindle.

    In a move worthy of George Orwell's Big Brother, Amazon.com sent its thought police into Kindles everywhere to erase copies of 1984 and Animal Farm.
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