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     The Politics of Writing: Should You Use Skunked Terms?
    Thu Mar 13 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    Decimate. Literally. Hopefully. These words, and others like them, provoke so much ire in some readers that they become troublesome to use. Critics feel that the writer is using the word in an unauthorized way, that it's being using to mean what it does not mean.

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     Nine Ideas Writers Need to Give Up
    Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    This is a list of ideas you should give up if you want to become a writer. It's short, but don't assume I produced it quickly. It took me 30 years to learn some of these lessons.

  3. Word Routes

     Crossword Tournament 2014: "Steely" Dan Scores a Five-Peat
    Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    If you saw the documentary "Wordplay," you witnessed young Tyler Hinman win the first of his five consecutive victories at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. This achievement seemed untouchable... until this year's tournament, when Dan Feyer managed to win for the fifth straight time — beating out none other than Tyler Hinman. Puzzlemaster Brendan Emmett Quigley wraps up the action.

  4. Word Count

     How A Personal Writing Style Develops
    Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2014
    In 1911 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was a thirty-year-old British writer living both in England and America. His upper-crust background and boarding school education had given him a knack for turning out satires of high society. Yet Wodehouse hadn't found his voice as a writer: what he wanted to say and how he wanted to say it.

  5. Wordshop

     The Vocabulary of Test Directions
    Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2014
    Jim Burke's The English Teacher's Companion includes a list of 358 academic vocabulary words culled from a survey of textbooks, assignments, standards, and examinations. Although the term academic vocabulary means different things to different educators, I like to think of Burke's use of the term as representing the vocabulary of directions.

  6. Evasive Maneuvers

     Jeekers! Regional Euphemisms Go Digital
    Wed Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2014
    I've written columns culled from the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) before, but it wasn't easy. I always had to thumb through the pages like a caveman. No more! Now, finally, DARE is available digitally, allowing this deep well of regional English to be searched easily. This is a bonanza for writers and word nerds everywhere, so get a subscription or take your library hostage until it does so.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     Celebrate National Grammar Day with a Haiku Cornucopia
    Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2014
    March 4th is National Grammar Day, so let's celebrate grammatically! As part of the festivities, the American Copy Editors Society has sponsored a grammar-themed haiku contest on Twitter. The entries have been submitted — enjoy them below.

  8. Language Lounge

     The Gods Must Be Multilingual
    Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2014
    An intriguing new theory holds that Egyptian animal mummies were intended as messages to the gods. The theory is yet more fodder for an age-old problem: how do we reconcile our dependence as humans upon language to communicate to divine beings who in nearly all cases are thought to have pre-existed the emergence of languages that we use and who could never have learned them in the natural way that we do?

  9. Blog Excerpts

     Get Your Haiku On for National Grammar Day
    Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2014
    National Grammar Day, celebrated every year on March 4th, is just around the corner. This year, the American Copy Editors Society is sponsoring a Tweeted Haiku Contest. Just tweet your grammar-related haiku using the #GrammarDay hashtag and you'll be entered in the competition! The deadline is noon EST, Monday, March 3rd. You can read more details here, and check out last year's winners here.

  10. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: February Edition
    Fri Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2014
    February is Black History Month, and before the month comes to a close we have a crossword in celebration. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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