Search the Site

Your Search:
97 98 99 100 101 Displaying 981-990 of 3460 Results

  1. Blog Excerpts

     Buffaloed
    Thu May 08 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    The website Mental Floss, where "knowledge junkies get their fix" considers an eight word sentence with three parts of speech - and all the same word. Curious? Check it out here.

  2. Blog Excerpts

     Beset by Acrimony
    Tue Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Have you ever noticed that some words get used by journalists and no one else? In the latest installment of Language Corner in the Columbia Journalism Review, Merrill Perlman considers such newsy words as acrimonious, beset, and temblor. Read it here.

  3. Wordshop

     Let Freedom Ring!
    Thu Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2010
    For Black History Month, take a look at some of the speeches that have inspired progress towards racial equality in America. Beyond looking at the historical context of each speech, students can use VocabGrabber to analyze the linguistic patterns in a particular speech to gain insight into what rhetorical devices made those spoken words so memorable.

  4. Word Routes

     Dan Brown Lexicography: "Secret Vault of Non-Words!"
    Tue Aug 10 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    A lot of silly things get written about the craft of dictionary-making, but a story that appeared last week in the London-based Daily Telegraph just might be the most nonsensical article about lexicography in recent memory. The breathless headline reads, "Secret vault of words rejected by the Oxford English Dictionary uncovered." What a scoop! Has the Telegraph blown the lid off a cabal of Dictionary Illuminati worthy of a Dan Brown novel? Yeah, not so much.

  5. Word Count

     Writing Memoirs
    Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    After reading author John Elder Robison's inspiring Backstory about his memoir Look Me in the Eye, we wanted to learn more about what makes this particular writer tick. How did he go from touring with KISS to repairing luxury cars to writing his acclaimed book about living with Asperger's syndrome? So we called him and had a fascinating conversation about writing, storytelling, and touching readers' lives though a memoir:

  6. Blog Excerpts

     How "Selfie" Was Born in Australia (And Took Over the World)
    Wed Nov 20 00:00:00 EST 2013
    Oxford Dictionaries has named selfie its Word of the Year, bringing a great deal of attention to the trendy word. As it turns out, this social-media-friendly term for a photograph of oneself first cropped up in Australia, where the "-ie" ending is often used to form new words.

  7. Evasive Maneuvers

     Fiercely Real Humanism and Other Hooey in the Physical Distancing Age
    Wed Apr 08 09:20:00 EDT 2020
    Are you physical distancing or social distancing? Either way, there's a euphemism to distract you during these unprecedented times.

  8. Language Lounge

     The Clean and the Unclean
    Fri Nov 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    In the recent Congressional showdown that resulted in the government shutdown, Senator Charles Schumer warned about what would happen if the House of Representatives sent the Senate a bill that was "unclean." What associations reverberate from his use of unclean to characterize the budget legislation?

  9. Teachers at Work

     Heidi Hayes Jacobs on the Challenges of the 21st-Century Classroom
    Mon May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Last week, in part one of our interview with education expert Heidi Hayes Jacobs we heard about how American educators can revise their literacy instruction to become more active, engaging, and ultimately effective. In part two, Heidi reveals how educational technology, including the Visual Thesaurus, can help keep pace with 21st-century students.

  10. Announcements

     Announcing the New Visual Thesaurus Online!
    Mon Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2007
    We're proud to announce the redesign of the Visual Thesaurus web site. Starting this week, you'll see new and exciting improvements to the Visual Thesaurus Online. What's new? We've added auto-complete so you can look up words faster. We've introduced brand-new, high-quality audio pronunciations. We've made the Visual Thesaurus magazine easier to read and navigate. And much, much more...
97 98 99 100 101 Displaying 981-990 of 3460 Results