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  1. Word Count

     Robbing 'Hood: Words Involving Theft
    Mon Jan 28 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Trying to teach journalists the finer points of law is nearly as hard as trying to teach them the finer points of math. So the advice often is boiled down to overly simplistic "rules": A house is "burglarized," but a person is "robbed."

  2. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: January Edition
    Fri Jan 25 00:00:00 EST 2013
    It's awfully chilly in many places right now, so stay warm and solve this wintry crossword. Figure it out and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  3. Teachers at Work

     Schools Are More Than a Test
    Thu Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2013
    After a trying few weeks, English teacher Michele Dunaway has arrived at some insights about what kids learn in school: "Here are the things schools teach, the things schools and teachers do that can never be addressed or assessed by fill-in-the-bubbles."

  4. Dog Eared

     A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
    Wed Jan 23 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Late last year, there was some controversy in the media over a new book by Sarah Ogilvie about the Oxford English Dictionary's historical coverage of foreign words. The controversy turned out to be a tempest in a teapot, overshadowing the worthy book behind it. Here, Mark Peters has an appreciation of Ogilvie's Words of the World.

  5. Word Routes

     Obama's Second Inaugural: Behind the Words
    Tue Jan 22 00:00:00 EST 2013
    The presidential inaugural address, that quadrennial high point in American political rhetoric, invariably attracts a huge amount of attention. President Obama's address yesterday was the subject of meticulous scrutiny: his word choice, his rhetorical devices, and even his grammar all were analyzed by countless language kibitzers.

  6. Blog Excerpts

     Looking Back on the Oath Flub
    Mon Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2013
    President Obama was officially sworn in to a second term by Chief Justice John Roberts yesterday in a private ceremony at the White House. Afterwards, Obama's daughter Sasha told him, "You didn't mess up." But four years ago, the oath didn't go so smoothly, thanks to a misplaced adverb. Ben Zimmer covered the oath flub for his Word Routes column. Read it here: "Taking the Oath of Office... Faithfully."

  7. Blog Excerpts

     Words We Love to Hate
    Fri Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2013
    In the wake of all the gleeful bashing of "phablet" (an ungainly blend of "phone" and "tablet"), we're opening up the floor. What words get your goat? "Moist"? "Slacks"? How about "nostril"?

  8. Blog Excerpts

     Happy Thesaurus Day!
    Fri Jan 18 00:00:00 EST 2013
    January 18th is celebrated as Thesaurus Day to honor the birthday of the author of the first thesaurus, Peter Mark Roget. Get into the spirit by reading our two-part interview with Roget biographer Joshua Kendall here and here. Also check out an ode to the thesaurus penned by Franklin P. Adams here and Johnny Carson's hilarious "Funeral for a Thesaurus Editor" sketch here.

  9. Candlepower

     How to Name Anything
    Thu Jan 17 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Everyone's been a name developer at least once. But I'm guessing you haven't named many things with which you had no personal connection. Year after year. For money.

  10. Behind the Dictionary

     Peeves, Hates, and Aversions
    Wed Jan 16 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Some people have "pet peeves," while others have "pet hates." What's the difference? Are "pet peeves" particularly American? And what about "pet aversions"? Linguist Neal Whitman investigates the vocabulary of annoyance.
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