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  1. Department of Word Lists

     Wayne State Word Warriors to the Rescue!
    Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2015
    Six years running, the logophiles at Wayne State University, a.k.a. the Wayne State Word Warriors, have curated a crowd-sourced list of rare words that "deserve a bit more love." These are words that used to be commonly known and are still useful, but have started to drop out of the English lexicon. Wayne State Warriors' mission? To bring them back.

  2. Blog Excerpts

     Are You Mad About "Mad Men"?
    Fri Mar 23 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    Sunday, at long last, marks the return of the acclaimed television series "Mad Men." We're big fans of the show, but we also enjoy nitpicking about it. Read Ben Zimmer's Word Routes column about an anachronistic dictionary prop here, and about the historical accuracy of the dialogue here.

  3. Word Count

     Flash Card: Remembrance of Things Past
    Thu Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2013
    My sister has a problem with "passed" and "past." She recently commented thus on a Facebook post about the current flu outbreak: "When I flew this passed week, I wore a mask! I was mortified, but I can't remember the last time I flew and didn't get a cold, and I'm sick of it!" (I really wish I'd seen her in that mask.)

  4. Teachers at Work

     The Power of One Good Book
    Mon Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    One Saturday night earlier this month, the USA Network aired the Oscar-winning movie To Kill a Mockingbird. Afterwards, one of my students tweeted how much she liked the movie, and how glad she was she'd read the book.

  5. Weekly Worksheet

     Looks Can Be Deceiving
    Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Homographs — words that are spelled the same but have different meanings — are a common source of frustration among ESL and native English speakers alike. What many students do not realize is that sometimes identifying a homograph's part of speech can indicate to readers how that word is pronounced.

  6. Language Lounge

     Linguistic Time Travel
    Thu Jul 01 09:00:00 EDT 2021
    Language doesn't change very much in 85 years but it changes enough for the modern reader to uncover a few surprises.

  7. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: January Edition
    Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2012
    This month, it's the return of the word-chain crossword puzzle! Follow the chain of synonyms and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt.

  8. Word Count

     The Power of Books
    Tue Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    Fine, call me a Luddite or, even worse, a late adopter, but I say, Kindle-schmindle, Nook-schnook, give me a good old-fashioned book.

    Yes, I have adopted, step by reluctant step, each new advance of the digital realm, Facebook, Google, Wikipedia and all the rest, and I've grown used to the virtual media's constant changing despite my constant grousing.

  9. Word Count

     Pleas-ing Words: Prepositions and Crime
    Mon Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    One man "pleaded guilty to DWI." Another "pled guilty of DWI." A third "entered a plea of guilty to DWI charges."

    What's going on, aside from way too much drinking?

  10. Word Count

     Five Reasons Why You Must Murder Your Darlings
    Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2008

    I have a close friend, whose work I have helped edit for more than 20 years. He likes to say that my job is to review his writing, find the very best parts and then remove them. He is half joking. But only half.

    In my defense, I will say that I am simply following the advice of British journalist, critic, and novelist Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who said: "Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it — wholeheartedly — and delete it before sending your manuscript to press. Murder your darlings."
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