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Articles from September, 2012
This week, there have been many celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the emoticon, the now-ubiquitous use of punctuation marks to mark emotion in online text. On September 19, 1982, at 11:44 a.m., Scott Fahlman posted a message to a Carnegie Mellon bulletin board, proposing that :-) be used for marking jokes and :-( for non-jokes. Though Fahlman should get full credit for these pioneering smiley and frowny faces, there were in fact much earlier pioneers in expressive typography.
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People who write are "writers," though many call themselves "authors," especially if their products are books, or legislation. More and more, they say that they "authored" what they wrote.
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TIME Names Vocabulary.com a Top 50 Website for 2012
One of only four in the education category
TIME Magazine has named Vocabulary.com one of its Top 50 Websites of 2012! Each year, TIME salutes new websites and services that are “useful, entertaining, innovative or just plain addictive,” and Vocabulary.com is one of just four educational websites to be named to TIME’s list for 2012. We are very proud to be acknowledged for our work towards revolutionizing the way that vocabulary is taught! Thank you, TIME!
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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - September 19, 2012
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - September 19, 2012
Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - September 19, 2012.
Then see Vocabulary Begets Vocabulary: The More You Know, the More You Learn to understand why learning these words will help you absorb even more as you read.
Avast, ye mateys! Did you know that September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Arrrr, it's true! We've got some suggestions for sounding properly piratical.
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We're excited to announce that Vocabulary.com is a candidate to host a panel at the education technology conference SXSWedu. Vote for our panel, and watch our video-proposal here.
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Haven't you always thought that throughfare seemed more sensible than thoroughfare? I mean, it's a through road, not a thorough road, right?
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