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  1. Blog Excerpts

     Languages of the World
    Sat Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    Check out Ethnologue for a comprehensive cataloguing of the world's known living languages -- almost seven thousand of them! From Senegal's 36 tongues to China's 235, the site breaks down languages by size, family and country. Fascinating fact from the site: "95% of languages are spoken by only 6% of the world's people." Wow.

  2. Blog Du Jour

     Blog Book Reviews
    Wed Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2007

    Last week we brought you blog book tours. This week it's blog book reviews! Check out these websites for book reviews and commentary:

    Avid Book Reader

    Chick Lit Books

    Book Burger

    Curled Up With a Good Book

  3. Behind the Dictionary

     Um, What Do, Uh, Verbal Blunders Tell Us
    Wed Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2007

    Slips of the tongue? Mixed up consonants? Verbal blunders are more than simple mistakes to linguist and journalist Michael Erard. The author of Um... Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean, Michael explores what gaffes in speech tell us about language, and ourselves. We called him to learn, um, more about this subject:

  4. Dog Eared

     Um... Books
    Wed Sep 19 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    Michael Erard, the linguist and author we feature in this week's Behind the Dictionary column, recommends The Freudian Slip, by Sebastian Timpanaro, "a resounding rebuttal of Freud, in which you learn a lot about speech errors and Freud."

  5. Word Count

     Beat Writer's Block Now!
    Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    You know the feeling. You really, really, really don't want to write. You're blocked. You've hit the wall. The words just won't come. You're bereft of inspiration. But your writing project needs to be finished (or started!) So what can you do? Well, I have an idea. Twenty of 'em, actually?

  6. Blog Excerpts

     Book Tours, For Real
    Sat Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    This week in our Blog Du Jour blog recommendations we talked about "virtual book tours." But what if you want to actually meet your favorite author, for real and in the flesh? Check out BookTour, "where authors and audiences meet," a listing of author events around the country.

  7. Department of Word Lists

     Baseball Words
    Sat Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007

    "Baseball has had a phenomenal influence on the English language," says writer and lexicographer Paul Dickson. Paul should know. As the author of The Hidden Language of Baseball and The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary (and over 40 other books!), he's studied the impact of America's favorite pastime on English for the past three decades. Paul graciously shared some examples of baseball lingo that's now part of everyday speech.

    Designated hitter. "This is a strange construction in English, 'designated 'x'' but it gave birth to the term 'designated driver.'"

    Hit-and-run. "A baseball play that's been around since the 19th century. When the automobile arrived, all of a sudden the phrase also meant 'a hit-and-run accident.'"

  8. Blog Du Jour

     Book Tours, Virtually
    Wed Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2007

    No time to stop by the local bookstore to listen to a reading by your favorite author? Why, check out a "blog book tour" -- where writers visit blogs instead of stores. Here are literary blogs that feature authors, their books and book-related conversation, all at your computer-driven fingertips:

    The Elegant Variation

    Major Bedhead Reviews

    Book of Kells

    Writing in the Mountains

  9. Teachers at Work

     WordMasters on the Visual Thesaurus!
    Wed Sep 12 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    The Visual Thesaurus is very pleased to announce that we're now working together with The WordMasters Challenge to help students improve their vocabulary! What's WordMasters? As many of you already know, it's a popular national competition for Language Arts students in grades 3 to 12. Over four thousand school teams from every state participate each year. Students will now be able to study WordMasters lists right here on the Visual Thesaurus, with the first list arriving next month! We spoke to the program's founder, Nancy McGrath, to learn more about the challenge.

  10. Dog Eared

     Sign Language & Linguistics
    Mon Sep 10 00:00:00 EDT 2007

    Margalit Fox, the author of Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind and the subject of last week's fascinating Behind The Dictionary interview, suggests these books on the linguistics of sign language:

    The Signs of Language by Edward S. Klima and Ursula Bellugi

    Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks

    The Resilience of Language: What Gesture Creation in Deaf Children Can Tell Us About How All Children Learn Language by Susan Goldin-Meadow

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