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It's Passive Voice Day. Let It Be Celebrated.
Fri Apr 27 00:00:00 EDT 2012

A holiday has been created out of thin air and promoted by a blogger named Shaun McCance: Passive Voice Day, to be celebrated by one and all today. Appreciation for the passive voice can be shown by using the hashtag #passivevoiceday on Twitter. As has been said by Shaun, "It's just enjoyed when things are taken to an absurd extreme." Attention has been paid from San Francisco to Australia. More can be read here.
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Writers Talk About Writing

Tweet Level Orange
Wed Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2012
By Dennis Baron

What's your Twitter threat level? Tweeting a word that's on the federal government's terror word watch list could jump you up from green to red in 140 characters or less. And that could get you some unanticipated scrutiny from the Department of Homeland Security.  Continue reading...
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The New Yorker's "Eliminate a Word" Contest
Tue Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2012

The New Yorker asked its Twitter followers, if you could eliminate one word from the English language, what would it be? The most-tweeted suggestion turned out to be moist, a word that also bothers many Visual Thesaurus subscribers. Despite the mass aversion to moist, the editors declared another word the winner: slacks. Read all about it here.
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The AP Throws in the Towel on "Hopefully"
Fri Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2012

The big news in the copy editing world this week was the revelation that the Associated Press Stylebook would no longer hold the line against the long-stigmatized use of "hopefully" as a sentence adverb to mean "It is hoped." The announcement elicited some strong reactions both pro and con. Here is a roundup of some of the online responses to the stylebook change.  Continue reading...
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Useful sites for educators

Black History Month
Thu Feb 09 00:00:00 EST 2012

 Check out the following sites to find top-notch materials for teaching and learning about African American history:

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Introducing "Lexicon Valley"
Tue Feb 07 00:00:00 EST 2012

Mike Vuolo, a producer for the NPR show "On the Media," has started a new podcast about language called "Lexicon Valley." For his first installment, he chats with OTM host Bob Garfield about the history of the curious "rule" against ending a sentence in a preposition. Slate is hosting the podcast, which you can listen to here.
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Vote for the VT as Top Language Website!
Fri Dec 23 00:00:00 EST 2011

The Visual Thesaurus has been nominated as one of the best websites about the English language, as part of Macmillan Dictionary's Love English Awards for 2011. Want to show your fandom for the VT? Vote here! And thanks for your support.
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