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  1. Word Count

     Word Tasting Note: "Supercilious"
    Mon Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2014
    We welcome back James Harbeck for another installment of his "Word Tasting Notes." Here he considers "a word for people who look at things with the arch eyebrows and droopy eyelids of cool superiority," supercilious.

  2. Evasive Maneuvers

     Auditing Imaginary Companions Through Mental Training
    Thu May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2021
    After consultation with my imaginary friends and enemies, I've assembled a month's share of euphemisms that are, much to our chagrin, real.

  3. Blog Excerpts

     How Old is "@"?
    Fri May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    The now-familiar symbol "@" is nearly five centuries old: it shows up in a 1536 letter from an Italian merchant. (Back then it was used to indicate a unit of measure, the amphora.) The New York Times Bits blog has more.

  4. Dog Eared

     A Brief History of Sticklers
    Mon Mar 14 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    Robert Lane Greene, a correspondent for The Economist, has just published a thoroughly engaging book sure to fascinate all linguaphiles: You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity. In this excerpt, Greene argues that there has never been a "golden age" for English: fears of the language's demise have been with us for centuries, stoked by "sticklers" castigating the usage around them.

  5. Word Routes

     National Spelling Bee: 41 Survive Tough Words in Prelims
    Thu May 28 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    The preliminary rounds of the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee are over! After a computerized test and two rounds of spelling on stage, 41 of the original 243 contestants have made it to the semifinal round. And even in these early rounds, the spellers encountered some tremendously difficult words.

  6. Lesson Plans

     Words That Hold Court
    Mon May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    How can students learn legal terminology associated with the Supreme Court?

  7. Word Count

     10 Ways to Appear Shockingly Smart to Any Editor
    Mon Aug 21 00:01:00 EDT 2017
    Now that I've worked on both sides of the desk — as a writer and editor — for more than 35 years, I have a well-developed sense of what you have to do to make editors like you. Here are 10 sure-fire ways.

  8. Teachers at Work

     Miller Time: Teaching "Death of a Salesman"
    Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2009
    I feel like I ought to begin this column with some kind of public service announcement. Maybe a shaky close-up of the cover of the script of Death of a Salesman (preferably the one of Dustin Hoffman in old-age makeup), followed by a slow pan out as we hear Morgan Freeman's voice saying, "Teachers of America, before you teach Arthur Miller's classic, you should know... your students will not understand this play. If you have any choice in the matter — any choice at all — you should choose The Crucible."

  9. Language Lounge

     Machine Translation Dreams
    Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2018
    Accurate and dependable machine translation has long been a dream among linguists and computer scientists alike. Will computers get there eventually? Possibly.

  10. Word Routes

     2013 Spelling Bee: 42 Make it Through Vocabulary-Infused Preliminaries
    Thu May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    Two hundred eighty-one young contestants took on the new-and-improved preliminaries of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which for the first time included questions about words' definitions along with their spellings. After the dust had cleared, 42 of them managed to make it to Thursday's semifinals.
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