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March 24, 2021 From The Editor's Desk / Grammar / Language / Words

Typos and other reasons to double check everything

“We take in sensory information and combine it with what we expect, and we extract meaning . . . When

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November 28, 2020 From The Editor's Desk / Words

Favorite Words, Recommenced…

If you recall, back in… October… (seems like a lifetime ago in this pandemic), I had a post titled “FAVORITE

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October 3, 2020 Words

Favorite Words, and why I love them

Do you have a word list, a list of favorite words that you have kept forever? I do. I guess

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September 25, 2018 Did You Know ? / From The Editor's Desk / Language / Words

Language: Alumnus, Alumni, Alumna, and Alumnae

Today’s Lunchbox Lesson: ALUMNUS, ALUMNI, ALUMNA, and ALUMNAE These words all describe attending or graduating from a particular school, but

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August 24, 2018 Did You Know ? / Grammar / Words / Writing

Unwritten Rules of English Grammar: ‘Tock-tick’, ‘Dong-ding’, ‘Kong-King’

Thanks to something called ablaut reduplication — a rule stating that, if you repeat a word and change an internal vowel, the

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August 17, 2018 Language / Words

Word of the Day: elide

Friday Word of the Day elide verb \ i-ˈlīd \ elided; eliding transitive verb 1 a : to suppress or

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October 31, 2017 Did You Know ? / Editor Notes / Words

Why is there an apostrophe in Hallowe’en?

One early spelling of “Halloween” was “All Hallows’ Even (Even = evening). The “all” and “s” were dropped, “hallows’ ”

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October 12, 2017 Editor Notes / Language / Word Wednesday / Words

Thursday Word of the Day: Lemma

lemma [lem-uh] noun In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or

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October 10, 2017 Quote / Words / Writing

A writer is… by Ursula K. Le Guin

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words

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June 2, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Humorists Ogden Nash and James Thurber

What is the connection between Ogden Nash and James Thurber? Besides both being humorists, they published at The New Yorker during the

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May 31, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison

Continuing on the Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamp week, today I will be featuring Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison. The

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May 30, 2016 Language / Literary Arts Series / Literature / Words / Writing

Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamps – John Steinbeck and Dorothy Parker

Inspiration comes from many places. Today’s blog post inspiration came from the Richard Wright quote of last week, when I

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May 26, 2016 Language / Science / Words

The Brain Dictionary [+ Video]

A groundbreaking new study from the Gallant Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley is transforming how scientists understand language

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