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"Refudiate": The View from Oxford
Wed Jul 21 00:00:00 EDT 2010
The blogosphere has been abuzz over Sarah Palin's use of the word refudiate in a Twitter update, apparently mashing up refute and repudiate. Now OUPblog, the official blog of Oxford University Press, weighs in. "Refudiate this, word snobs!" chortles OUP lexicographer Christine Lindberg. Read all about it here.
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Are You Really a Perfectionist?
Thu May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2019
Perfectionism is a beguiling word with "perfect" at the root. Who doesn't want to be perfect? But, giving yourself a label — even a pretty one — doesn't help one iota, unless you know how to change your behavior.
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How to Beat Imposter Syndrome
Tue Dec 22 09:00:00 EST 2020
Learn how to beat imposter syndrome with these four tips.
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Candlepower
The X Factor
Mon Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2014
In February, Nokia announced a new hybrid device called Nokia X. No, the name is not a generic placeholder until something catchier comes along. It's the official name of the phone. Mysterious and austere, simple yet highly symbolic, the name is representative of a dominant branding trend of our era. In nearly every category of commerce, X marks the spot.
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Why We Misread
Tue Jul 03 00:00:00 EDT 2012
Shortly after 10 a.m. EDT on June 28, FOXNews and CNN erroneously reported that the US Supreme Court had invalidated the Affordable Care Act. Simultaneously, Scotusblog, which was live-blogging the last Supreme Court session of the 2011 term, correctly announced that the Court had upheld most of the ACA.
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Wordshop
Build a Word Wall!
Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 EST 2009
A word wall is pretty much what it sounds like — a classroom wall reserved for a word display. Most teachers associate word walls with emergent readers, but word walls are no longer just the stuff of elementary schools. Word walls can be used effectively to help students at all levels to learn vocabulary.
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Dog Eared
A Proverb-palooza for the (Recent) Ages
Mon May 21 00:00:00 EDT 2012
Mark Peters reviews The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs: "When you talk about proverbs, it's hard not to add the adjective old: we tend to think of proverbs as remnants of the bygone days of yore, not the present days of non-yore."
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Evasive Maneuvers
Euphemism of the Year? Spreading Freedom Pucky
Tue Jul 09 00:00:00 EDT 2019
Freedom gas. Molecules of freedom. In appreciation of these insane terms, I'd like to look at some past terms that freedom has spawned in the cesspool of English.
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Candlepower
The Ascent of "Sherpa"
Tue Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2013
On May 29, 1953, the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and the Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Today we find the word "sherpa" far from its original range: in job descriptions and mobile apps, in government jargon and corporate trademarks, in aircraft names and fashion lingo.
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Weekly Worksheet
Analogies Are to the VT as a Lock Is to a Key
Tue Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2011
In this week's worksheet, students can use the relationship lines in the Visual Thesaurus word map displays to answer analogy questions.
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