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  1. Blog Excerpts

     Happy Dictionary Day!
    Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    October 16th is National Dictionary Day, commemorating the birth of the great lexicographer Noah Webster. Celebrate by delving into our archive for articles about Webster and the world of dictionaries. A sampling: "Noah Webster at 250: A Visionary or a Crackpot?," "The Case for Dictionary Day," "The Birth of Webster's Dictionary," and "Dictionary Day and the Quest for All-American Words."

  2. Candlepower

     You Can't Judge a Vook by Its Cover
    Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    You can read it. You can watch it. You can talk about it online with your friends. It's a sort of picture book — or, more precisely, a moving-picture book — but its inventors call it a Vook. That's Vook as in video + book.

  3. Language Lounge

     The Pulse(s) of the Nation(s)
    Thu Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2016
    The breathless anticipation is now at an end and the festivities can commence: it is 2016, the International Year of Pulses. If your main dialect of English is a North American one, you may begin by wondering whose pulses are included, since you probably think of pulse as designating the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart. But there is the other pulse, familiar to speakers of other English dialects, that is more or less synonymous with legume.

  4. Candlepower

     Writing for Designers
    Wed Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2007

    Writers write, designers design, right? Not so fast, says Derek Powazek. The designer of award-winning websites and an accomplished writer and photographer, his company publishes JPG, a photography magazine that's both a community-driven website and a printed publication. Derek says it's critical for designers to think about writing, too. He spoke to us about the connection:

  5. Word Count

     Grammar Bite: Don't Dangle Your Participles
    Wed Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2011

    Participle.

    It's one of those words your English teacher used once or twice but that didn't really stick with you. Yet improper use of a participle can cause your sentence to blur before your readers' eyes. In this Grammar Bite, we'll define participles and look at how things can go awry with them. Conquer the dangling participle, and your writing will smarten up right away.

  6. Word Count

     Ada to Ziv: Names in Computers
    Tue Jun 26 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    June 23, 2012 would have been the 100th birthday of the British polymath Alan Turing. Among his achievements, Turing contributed substantially to the field of computers, and his name shows up multiple times in the lexicon of IT. Reflecting on this made me wonder who else I might find represented in the vocabulary of the field. Lots of people, it turns out.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     Scrabble Inflation
    Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2009

    Does the addition of words like za and qi to the Scrabble player's arsenal mean that "Z" and "Q" are now overvalued? The Wall Street Journal's Numbers Guy investigates, here and here.

  8. Word Count

     Why You Shouldn't Fret About Creativity
    Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2015
    People often have the totally wrong idea that they need to have been born creative in order to write. While being born certain ways can help your writing a lot — being born wealthy means you may not have to worry about money; being born a good proofreader means you'll catch most of your own typos — creativity doesn't even count on the list of concerns you should fret about.

  9. Word Routes

     2013 Spelling Bee: Arvind Mahankali Turns "German Curse" Into "German Blessing"
    Fri May 31 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    Much of the buzz leading up to the 86th Scripps National Spelling Bee had to do with the first-ever inclusion of vocabulary questions in the off-stage portions of the competition. But in the end, it came down to a traditional spelling face-off over tricky words originating from other languages. Arvind Mahankali of Bayside Hills, New York had been stumped by German-derived words in the last two Bees, but this time a German word was his salvation.

  10. Blog Excerpts

     Coming Up ACES
    Fri Apr 16 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    The annual conference of the American Copy Editors Society is in full swing, held this year in Philadelphia. Among the panels is one devoted to grammar questions, featuring Visual Thesaurus editor and New York Times language columnist Ben Zimmer. Even if you're not in Philly, you can follow the action on the ACES blog.
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