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  1. Word Routes

     Here a Czar, There a Czar...
    Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 EST 2008
    If you've been keeping up with the news about the Obama transition, you might have noticed an awful lot of "czar" talk. From "health czar" to "climate czar" to "urban affairs czar" to "technology czar" to "copyright czar," it seems like there's a czarship for every policy area in the new administration. And even though the proposal for a "car czar" stalled on Capitol Hill, expect that pirate-friendly rhyme to make headlines again in 2009.

  2. Candlepower

     Where Did They Get That Name?
    Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 EST 2008
    When I'm feeling stuck on a naming project, I like to remind myself of brand names' myriad and diverse genealogies. Companies have been named for their founders (L.L. Bean), products for their founders' daughters (Mercedes-Benz). Trademarks have been created from street names and star names, numbers and neologisms, contemporary slang and archaic vocabulary.

  3. Blog Du Jour

     RIP, Harold Pinter
    Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 EST 2008

    The world has lost Nobel-winning playwright Harold Pinter, a master of language and silence. Bloggers remember.

    Theater Loop

    Parabasis

    OC Register: The Arts

    Mental Floss

  4. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: December Edition
    Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 EST 2008
    Happy holidays from everyone at the Visual Thesaurus. This month we've got a puzzle in the holiday spirit. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  5. Dog Eared

     Modern Christmas Classics
    Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 EST 2008

    We've come a long way from the days of Dickens and Clement C. Moore. Here are new classics in the Yuletide tradition.

    Holidays on Ice

    The Stupidest Angel

    A Christmas Story

    The Christmas Chronicles

  6. Behind the Dictionary

     Quotable Moments of '08
    Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 EST 2008
    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 (and entertaining) quotation dictionary. Below, find out what he thinks are the top ten quotations of 2008.

  7. Lesson Plans

     The Mighty Elements
    Tue Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2008
    How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to investigate chemical elements and their properties?

  8. Teachers at Work

     Theme for Visual T: Teaching the Poetry of Langston Hughes
    Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 EST 2008
    I'm a big Langston Hughes fan; he had a gift for putting ideas into challenging yet embracing truths, and boy, was the man prolific. He wrote dozens of poems, plays, short stories and novels, many that are appropriate for a middle- and high-school-age classroom.

  9. Word Routes

     Mailbag Friday: "Jerry-Rigged"
    Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2008
    My mention earlier this week of the word gerrymander (after Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry, blamed for the tortuous redistricting in his state in 1812) inspired some free association. One commenter posited a connection to the jerry of jerry-built ("shoddy; of inferior workmanship and materials"), though it turns out that word only shows up about half a century after Gerry first gerrymandered. Jerry-built, in turn, led another reader to wonder, "What about jerry-rigged? I've heard that it's really supposed to be jury-rigged."

  10. Blog Excerpts

     Trans-Atlantic Word Winners
    Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 EST 2008

    The trans-Atlantic words of the year have been selected on the Separated by a Common Language blog. Best American-to-British import is meh, and the best British-to-American import is vet (the verb). Read all about it here (and read our own discussion of meh here and vet here).

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