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  1. Blog Excerpts

     Dictionary of Difficult Words
    Sat Nov 04 00:00:00 EST 2006
    Can't tell your a posteriori from your a priori? Look 'em up in the "Dictionary of Difficult Words," a website that asks, "Do you aim to become a member of the literati, or do you wish to be a savant? Do you want to avoid being verbigerative and be succinct instead?" If you answered yes, yes, yes, and yes, check out their list of words here.

  2. Word Routes

     Crossword Tournament 2010: Dan Feyer Wins!
    Mon Feb 22 00:00:00 EST 2010
    The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament has come to an end, and with it the end of Tyler Hinman's amazing five-year reign as champ. Meet the new alpha dog of the crossword world: the one and only Dan Feyer. Puzzlemaster Brendan Emmett Quigley joins us again with his wrap-up of the action from Brooklyn.

  3. Word Count

     Five Ways to Get Your Inner Critic to Shut Up
    Wed Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2011
    One of my 17-year-old daughters sometimes slaps the side of her own head and says, "Stupid, stupid." I don't think anyone -- particularly not one of my kids -- should ever call themselves stupid. But I see writers doing it all the time.

  4. Wordshop

     Paying Attention to Word Choice: One of the 6 + 1 Traits of Writing
    Wed Nov 25 00:00:00 EST 2009
    According to educator and writer Ruth Culham "precise nouns, descriptive adjectives, and energetic verbs" are all examples of the rich language we should be encouraging students to develop as teachers emphasize "word choice" as one of the "6 + 1 traits of writing."

  5. Word Routes

     2014 Spelling Bee: Co-Champions Share Spotlight in a "Competition Against the Dictionary"
    Fri May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2014
    It was another dramatic finish at the Scripps National Spelling Bee. After the 46 semifinalists were whittled down to the dozen contestants for last night's finals, I tweeted, "12 kids enter, 1 kid leaves." Little did I know that two kids would be named co-champions in the Bee's first tie since 1962.

  6. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: May Edition
    Fri May 29 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In the May edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle, we're celebrating Graduation Day. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  7. Blog Excerpts

     Mystery-y-ish-y!
    Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Visual Thesaurus contributor Mark Peters writes: "After years of weird-word collecting, I'm pretty unfazed by words with multiple, redundant, exuberant suffixes... However, even I was gobsmacked out of my chair when I spotted mystery-y-ish-y." Read all about the suffix-y pileups Mark has found on OUPblog.

  8. Word Count

     How to Read More Books
    Mon Nov 19 00:00:00 EST 2018
    If you want to be a writer, you need to be a reader, first. Here's how to fit more reading into your schedule, no matter how busy you are.

  9. Blog Excerpts

     Word on the Street: New Wall Street Journal Column
    Tue Jul 02 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    Ben Zimmer, executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, has been writing a language column for the last couple of years for The Boston Globe (and before that for The New York Times Magazine). Now he is starting a new language column for The Wall Street Journal called "Word on the Street." Each week he will focus on a word in the news and examine its history. In his first column, he looks at how cyber is showing up with increasing frequency as a noun. Check it out here.

  10. Backstory

     Jon Clinch, Author of "Finn"
    Sat Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    At the outset, a famous novelist warned me that if I insisted on writing Finn I ought to be constantly on my guard. "Mr. Clemens," he said, "will be looking over your shoulder." He didn't know the half of it. And frankly, neither did I.

    Only when I showed early bits of the manuscript to other writers did I begin to understand. There was plenty of encouragement, of course, and lots of praise, but beneath it all was an undercurrent of, How dare you?

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