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  1. Word Count

     Nutty Non-Rules of Grammar
    Wed Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    Lisa McLendon, a copy editor for The Wichita Eagle who maintains the Grammar Monkeys blog, recently fielded a complaint from a reader about how the newspaper had used the verb "rise" in a headline. This led her down the path of documenting "nutty non-rules of grammar" that people often hold on to, despite appeals to common sense.

  2. Word Count

     Self-Publish Your Writing!
    Mon Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2011

    Calling all writers! Here's a word to the wise:

    Self-publish!

    Sounds so good, let's say it again:

    Self-publish, self-publish, self-publish!

  3. Word Routes

     New Virus, New Words
    Mon Mar 30 00:00:00 EDT 2020
    Caremongering? Quarantini? Zoom-bombing? The COVID-19 pandemic has already inspired its own lexicon of coined words.

  4. Teachers at Work

     The Problem with Punctuation
    Tue Sep 17 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    I have to admit that two of the biggest areas in which I struggle as a teacher are instructing grammar and punctuation. Long ago, I didn't seem so frustrated, but like cursive handwriting, grammar and punctuation have become lost in the shuffle.

  5. Word Count

     When "Common Grammar Mistakes" Are Not About Grammar
    Mon Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2012
    Grammar is not an easy word to pin down: it has several meanings covering many referents and phenomena. You could think of it mainly as the system or structure of a language, particularly its syntax and morphology, and sometimes also its phonology and semantics; and it is the areas of linguistics that study these.

  6. Dog Eared

     In Dictionary Battle, Scrabblers Become Squabblers
    Thu Sep 15 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    Earlier this week we featured an excerpt from Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis, an entertaining look at the world of competitive Scrabble, now published in a tenth anniversary edition with a special afterword on the latest Scrabble developments. Here we present another excerpt from the afterword, about the raging debates over what words to include in the official Scrabble dictionary.

  7. Word Count

     How to Talk to Yourself as a Writer
    Wed Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2016
    I adore open-area offices. When I started working in a newsroom 30 years ago — with a hundred reporters and editors, each with a phone and keyboard — I thought the noise and lack of privacy would drive me crazy. Instead, it invigorated me.

  8. Teachers at Work

     Books Your Kid Should Read
    Wed Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    Ah, summertime. Ah, summer reading time! But what books should your kids bury their noses into this vacation? Enter super librarian Nancy Pearl. A veteran bookophile, commentator on NPR, and the model for a Librarian Action Figure doll (really), Nancy has introduced thousands of kids to great reads. She's the author of the popular Book Lust and Book Crush, which recommends books for elementary to high school students. We talked to Nancy about this summer's reading:

  9. Blog Excerpts

     Grammar Day Haiku Contest: The Winners
    Mon Mar 05 00:00:00 EST 2012
    March 4th was National Grammar Day, and one of the events held to celebrate the occasion was a Grammar Haiku Contest, overseen by editor Mark Allen. Language lovers were asked to post grammar- or usage-based haikus on Twitter, and nearly 200 entries were submitted. Herewith, from Allen's blog, the winning haiku and the runners-up, as determined by a distinguished panel of judges.

  10. Candlepower

     Street Smarts
    Thu Apr 21 00:00:00 EDT 2022
    Street names can situate us in geography, history, politics, and culture. But they may be replaced by new systems of wayfinding.
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