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  1. Word Count

     Are You Asking the Right Questions for Your Writing?
    Tue Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2011

    I like to play games with clients. I don't mean anything nasty by this! Quite the opposite: I play games because it helps make the learning more fun.

    Recently, I had a client -- a reporter -- who was having a hard time writing stories.

  2. Teachers at Work

     Lessons from English 101
    Mon Dec 28 00:00:00 EST 2009
    For four years, Nathan Bierma wrote the "On Language" column in the Chicago Tribune, covering English-language issues from etymology to usage in a highly engaging style. He has also taught courses in writing and speech as an adjunct professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In this essay, reprinted from his new collection of columns, The Eclectic Encyclopedia of English, Nathan reflects on the lessons he learned teaching English 101.

  3. Announcements

     A New Look, and a New Column on the Way
    Mon May 12 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    As part of our tireless mission to make the online content of the Visual Thesaurus more enjoyable and accessible, we're making some changes to the magazine's look this week. We're also introducing a lively new column tracking words on the move.

  4. Word Count

     A Serving of Grammar for Thanksgiving
    Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 EST 2014
    Last year for Thanksgiving, I did something gastronomically delicious but linguistically impossible: I dry-brined my turkey. The very word brine implies water. Tons of seafaring stories reference the briny deep as a euphemism for the salty sea. So what could a dry-brine possibly be?

  5. Candlepower

     Shall We Plus?
    Wed Apr 17 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    "Plus" is a positive workhorse of a word. It can be a preposition (two plus two), an adjective (a C-plus grade), or a noun (the good weather is a plus). Until recently, though, "plus" has mostly stayed out of the verb column. That's changing, on the evidence of some recent sightings.

  6. Blog Excerpts

     Dr. Seuss and the iPad
    Mon Dec 20 00:00:00 EST 2010
    Theodore Geisel, the man we know as Dr. Seuss, would be happy to know that his books for children are ideally suited for the iPad. "The tablet delivers the active connection between words and images that Dr. Seuss always intended," L. Gordon Crovitz writes in the Wall Street Journal. Read about the success of "e-Seuss" here.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     Word Routes Among the Top Language Lovers
    Mon Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    Word Routes, the regular column by Visual Thesaurus editor Ben Zimmer, was selected as one of the top 100 Language Lovers of 2012, and one of the top 20 Language Professional blogs, in a worldwide competition hosted by bab.la and Lexiophiles. Language blogs and sites were nominated and then ranked according to user votes and other criteria. Check out the whole list here.

  8. Word Count

     How To Be Alone
    Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2019
    Even if you enjoy being alone, the exquisite loneliness of writing can still be tough. Here are five ways to deal with that.

  9. Language Lounge

     Translating Democracy
    Mon May 02 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    It's a rare newscast today, in any language, that does not include coverage of unrest in one or more countries of the Middle East, where people seem to have reached the limit of their patience with and tolerance of repressive, nonrepresentative governments. Nearly all of the countries in upheaval now are Arabic-speaking countries. So how much of this tremendous upheaval do we really "get"?

  10. Candlepower

     Electrifying!
    Thu Jun 17 00:00:00 EDT 2021
    Will you drive a ZEV, a PHEV, or an ICE? A Lightning, an Ioniq, or an e-Tron? Here are some of the names and terms you'll need to know to navigate the evolving landscape of electric vehicles.
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