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  1. Word Count

     Lyrical Accidents: When Pop Music Vocab Goes Wrong
    Mon Aug 26 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    "In the mood for dance"? "My heart bleeded"? While creating vocabulary lists of unusual words found in pop music, writer and linguist Adam Cooper ran across some words that go beyond peculiarity and into the realm of error.

  2. Blog Excerpts

     A Peever's Perspective on "Literally"
    Fri Aug 23 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    We've been keeping tabs on the fuss over the word "literally" over the past couple of weeks, as commentators have expressed indignation that the non-literal definition of the word can be found in both online and print dictionaries now. In a Washington Post opinion piece, copy editor Bill Walsh, a self-identified "enlightened stickler," ruminates on the "literally" debate, which he thinks is overblown despite his own peevishness over misuse of the word.

  3. Word Count

     Neither Regions: Using "Nor" or Not
    Thu Aug 22 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    Neither you nor I set the "rules" of English; we do it together, by using words in certain ways. But we do learn certain "rules," and we can either remember them, forget them, or ignore them. For example, most of us learned that "neither" and "nor" were a pair, like Lucy and Ricky, or peanut butter and jelly.

  4. Dog Eared

     A Long, Loving Look at Writing Short
    Wed Aug 21 00:00:00 EDT 2013

    I'm jealous.

    That's my 2-word review of How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times by Roy Peter Clark, who I assume will appreciate the brevity.

  5. Blog Excerpts

     Did Shakespeare Really Coin All Those Words?
    Tue Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    Writing for The Boston Globe, NYU doctoral candidate Rachael Scarborough King reported on recent studies that cast doubt on the commonly held assumption that William Shakespeare invented many of the words we use today.

  6. Word Routes

     The Straight Dope on "Doping"
    Mon Aug 19 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    With endless drama swirling around disgraced baseball players like Ryan Braun and Alex Rodriguez, the word doping has been firmly ensconced in American sports headlines, just as it has been in international coverage of cycling and track and field. How doping came to refer to taking drugs to improve one's athletic performance, however, is a complicated story.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     "Literally": A Tempest in a Teapot?
    Fri Aug 16 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    This week there has been a raging language debate about the inclusion of the non-literal meaning of "literally" in various dictionaries. But is the whole controversy overblown? Here is a roundup of online reactions.

  8. Candlepower

     Of Coke and Cat Food: The "Classics" Among Us
    Thu Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    From classic rock to Turner Classic Movies, from Classic Roast coffee to MapQuest Classic, we're living in a new Classic Era. What do all those classics signify, and what are "classic" brands trying to sell us?

  9. Word Count

     Between "Us" and "I": Getting Stuck on Plurals
    Wed Aug 14 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    The editors were discussing a story about the health benefits of a particular type of cactus, and maybe others. The story was called "Cacti." "Is it cactuses or cacti?" one asked. "The plural of cactus is cactuses," another said, adding wryly: "Is the plural of circus circi?"

  10. Teachers at Work

     The Trouble with Letters: The Alphabet Soup of Writing Strategies
    Tue Aug 13 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    Michele Dunaway, who teaches English and journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Missouri, has been frustrated by the welter of acronyms for writing strategies that teachers are expected to focus on as part of the Common Core curriculum standards.
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