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In the wake of the Scripps National Spelling Bee's announcement Tuesday that vocabulary questions will now be included in the Bee, quiz yourself on sample questions here.
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Jonathon Owen is a copy editor and student of linguistics who "holds the paradoxical view that it's possible to be a prescriptivist and descriptivist simultaneously." Here, he looks at how people can get tripped up on words with unusual plural forms like phenomena.
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Words to Avoid in Business Writing
From Bryan A. Garner, writing on the Harvard Business Review blog
Last week, usage guru Bryan A. Garner collected a list of business-speak or "bizspeak" to avoid and posted it to the Harvard Business Review blog. What he describes as "vogueish" and "hyperformal" vocabulary makes an easy target.
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Ten Words from The NY Times - Apr. 3, 2013
Ten Words from The NY Times - Apr. 3, 2013
Learn Ten Words from The NY Times - Apr. 3, 2013.
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.
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Correia Middle Dominates School Leaderboard Again
School players earn more than 10 million points
Students from Correia Middle School in San Diego, CA continued to dominate the school leaderboard in March, coming out a clear winner with more than 10 million points earned. Congratulations to the intrepid eighth graders leading Correia's charge!
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The city of Providence, RI is embarking on a bold initiative to narrow the "word gap": young children in families of lower socioeconomic status tend to hear fewer words in their home environment than higher-income counterparts, leading to inequalities in academic success when they enter school. Providence has won a $5 million grant to address this problem by means of a high-tech vocabulary intervention program, as our own Ben Zimmer writes in his latest Boston Globe column.
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