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  1. Word Count

     How Much Sleep Do Writers Really Need?
    Thu Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2016
    How often do you hear that it's just about mandatory to start writing earlier in the day? About 30 seconds of research showed me that a great many people offer this advice quite blithely.

  2. Word Count

     Writing As Fecund As Picasso's Sculptures
    Fri Mar 11 00:00:00 EST 2016
    A few months ago my wife and I visited New York's Whitney Museum and I wrote a column inspired by the art there that broke all the rules of realism. This month we toured a Museum of Modern Art exhibit of sculptures that Pablo Picasso created over six decades and felt a similar inspiration. "Fecund, fecund"—that's the word that kept going through my mind.

  3. Evasive Maneuvers

     Remixing Lexical Rubbish
    Wed Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2016
    Have we already seen the Euphemism of the Year? It's possible, euphemism enthusiasts: brace yourselves for a major-league, double-tongued, weapons-grade whopper of a doozy.

  4. Language Lounge

     An Example For Us All
    Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2016
    Even if you don't have an online news alert set up for the word dictionary, you may have caught wind of the recent tempest involving the exemplification of the adjective rabid with the phrase "rabid feminist" in some Oxford dictionaries, especially a dictionary that is used on smartphones.

  5. Candlepower

     Journey to the Center of a Metaphor
    Thu Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2016
    Over the last 35 or so years, journey has become one of our culture's dominant metaphors, a handy stand-in for experience, ordeal, process, test, investigation, story, and series of events.

  6. Blog Excerpts

     For Presidents' Day: Where Did "President" Come From Anyway?
    Mon Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2016
    As the United States celebrates Presidents' Day, it's a good time to mull over how we ended up calling the national leader "president" in the first place. Executive editor Ben Zimmer spoke to NPR's All Things Considered about the term's history.

  7. Behind the Dictionary

     It's an Adjective! It's an Adverb! It's "Super"!
    Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2016
    With what advertisers are coyly calling the "big game" looming this weekend, I decided it was time to follow up on a feeling that had been growing on me for a while: That I was hearing more and more people using super as an intensifier for adjectives, as in "I'm super excited!"

  8. Evasive Maneuvers

     Clean Eating, Horse Cookies, and Other New York Values
    Wed Feb 03 00:00:00 EST 2016
    As most word-watchers predicted, the American Dialect Society picked Netflix and chill as 2015's Most Euphemistic term. It was an obvious and strong choice, even though it makes me want to Netflix and take my own life at this point.

  9. Language Lounge

     Whether You Can Make Words Mean So Many Things
    Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2016
    A time-honored ritual around the world at year's end is to nominate Words of the Year, originally inspired by TIME magazine's Person of the Year. But words can be much more different from each other than people are. People of the Year are normally distinguished by their great influence. Words of the Year bear myriad relationships to the things they represent and because of this, the ways in which they distinguish themselves are extremely divergent.

  10. Candlepower

     We're So Excited!
    Fri Jan 29 00:00:00 EST 2016
    If you've been keeping your head down, just doing your job and paying the bills, it may have escaped your notice that we live in exciting times. Yes, really! We're excited about things! We're excited by things! We're excited to do things! And, increasingly, we're excited for things, events, and experiences.
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