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  1. Word Count

     Good Writing: Through a Glass Clearly
    Thu Sep 05 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    You and I want to be good writers, but what will make our writing good? Inspiration, perspiration, determination, and endless revision — all fine answers, but the biggest answer is: good writing captures life.

  2. Evasive Maneuvers

     A Post-Health Trip to Belize
    Wed Sep 04 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    In his latest monthly batch of under-the-radar euphemisms, Mark Peters illuminates why the care of "post-health professionals" might be necessary after someone is sent on a "trip to Belize."

  3. Edulinks

     The Evolution of a Word Lover
    Wed Sep 04 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    In a moving autobiographical essay in the New York Times Book Review, Joshua Henkin recounts how his bombing of the PSAT sent him on a lifelong word-learning journey, with the unlikely duo of his father and Stanley Kaplan as his mentors. Read Henkin's essay here.

  4. Lesson Plans

     The Faces Behind the Adjectives
    Tue Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    What does it mean to have an adjective created in your honor? What does that adjective imply?

  5. Language Lounge

     Premium Content
    Mon Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    Premium is a versatile word that occupies a unique semantic space in English, with nodes corresponding to ideas of scarcity, superior quality, preference, payment, and reward. The ways in which the usage of premium has changed in the last century or so have given premium a kind of circuit-training workout, allowing it to exercise its meanings vigorously at each of these nodes at different times.

  6. Blog Excerpts

     Celebrating Labor (and Labour) Day
    Mon Sep 02 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    On the first Monday in September, the United States observes Labor Day, while Canadians celebrate Labour Day. If you want to know why labour is the accepted spelling in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries like Canada, while Americans prefer labor (and color, favor, honor, humor, and neighbor), check out this classic Word Routes column by Ben Zimmer.

  7. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: August Edition
    Fri Aug 30 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    In this month's crossword, we're commemorating the 50th anniversary of The March on Washington with a quotation from Martin Luther King, Jr. Figure it out and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  8. Blog Excerpts

     Oxford's "Twerk": The Perfect Lexicographical Storm?
    Thu Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    When Oxford Dictionaries announced that its quarterly update would include the word twerk, a term for a particularly racy dance style, the timing was perfect: just two days earlier, Miley Cyrus had created a sensation by "twerking" at MTV's Video Music Awards. The result, writes our own Ben Zimmer, was a "perfect lexicographical storm."

  9. Behind the Dictionary

     Consider the Concierge
    Wed Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    There is a new trend in concierge medicine, with concierge practices consisting of concierge doctors, concierge physicians, or maybe concierge dentists, all offering their versions of concierge healthcare. How did the word for the guy in the hotel lobby who can get you show tickets, a restaurant reservation, or almost anything else you need, come to refer to this kind of ultra-personalized medical care?

  10. Word Routes

     The "Bubble" That Keeps on Bubbling
    Tue Aug 27 00:01:00 EDT 2013
    "We have to turn the page on the bubble-and-bust mentality," President Obama said in a recent weekly address. After the economic ruin of the housing bubble, it's hard to argue with that sentiment. But "bubbles" have long been with us — the metaphor of the bubble has been applied to fragile financial schemes for nearly three centuries, originating as a literary device.
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