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  1. Word Routes

     Mailbag Friday: "Brand-New" or "Bran-New"?
    Fri Dec 05 00:00:00 EST 2008

    Dorothy G. of Teeswater, Ontario writes in with today's Mailbag Friday question:

    I have always used bran-new to imply "unused," "just out of the package," etc. But when I look it up, I also find brand-new. Entirely too many years ago, if I used brand-new, I was assured that it was merely a mispronouncing of bran-new. I'd appreciate knowing the difference.

  2. Teachers at Work

     Playing with Words: The Fun Way to Expand Your Vocabulary
    Wed Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    This school year has roared out of the blocks like Usain Bolt running the 100 meter sprint in Beijing. And like Mr. Bolt, every member of the school community is learning that their capacity to go faster and accomplish more is yet to be discovered. But even with numerous multi-tasking and time-management challenges, I've had a few moments to pause and enjoy the enthusiastic and intelligent learning connections teachers at my school are bringing to their students.

  3. Word Count

     No "Fun": Noun? Yes. Adjective? Well...
    Wed Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    The journalism professor was not having much "fun" explaining things to her feature-writing students: "I know so fun is wrong but I can't tell them why," she wrote. "So happy is right, but so fun should have 'much' as the sandwich filling."

  4. Candlepower

     Duds We Love, Duds We Don't
    Thu Jan 16 00:00:00 EST 2014
    Here's a riddle for you: How is clothing similar to a bomb that doesn't detonate or a seed that doesn't sprout? No, the answer is not "They're all useless." (Sorry, nudists.) Rather, they all share a single label: duds.

  5. Blog Excerpts

     Get Ready for National Punctuation Day!
    Wed Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Did you know that Friday, September 24th is National Punctuation Day? Get in the mood by submitting an entry to the Punctuation Haiku Contest, sponsored by the organizers of NPD. Read all about it here.

  6. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: November Edition
    Fri Nov 29 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Black Friday kicks off the holiday shopping season, so we've got an appropriately shopping-themed crossword this month. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  7. Blog Excerpts

     It's Passive Voice Day. Let It Be Celebrated.
    Fri Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    A holiday has been created out of thin air and promoted by a blogger named Shaun McCance: Passive Voice Day, to be celebrated by one and all today. Appreciation for the passive voice can be shown by using the hashtag #passivevoiceday on Twitter. As has been said by Shaun, "It's just enjoyed when things are taken to an absurd extreme." Attention has been paid from San Francisco to Australia. More can be read here.

  8. Teachers at Work

     How to Receive the New York Times Electronic Edition
    Tue Feb 23 00:00:00 EST 2010

  9. Word Routes

     Puzzlin' Evidence
    Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Tonight the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament kicks off at the Brooklyn Marriott with "an evening of games and entertainments" — a night of conviviality before the Tournament proper begins Saturday morning. We here at the Visual Thesaurus are happy to help sponsor the Friday fun, providing complimentary VT subscriptions to the prize-winners. I'll be attending tonight (in advance of competing in the Tournament in the "rookie" category), and I'm looking forward to meeting up with friends old and new in this collegial community of diehard verbivores.

  10. Blog Excerpts

     New Seattle Radio Show Looks at Strange Language
    Fri Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    KUOW, Seattle's NPR affiliate, kicked off a new midday show this week called The Record. The show is featuring a regular series on the origins of peculiar words and phrases called "Strange Language," and they're getting the straight dope from our own Ben Zimmer.
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