Deadspin reports this week on White Sox pitcher Chris Sale's personal vocabulary challenge: "After nearly every start this season...Sale has met a specific objective: Incorporate a predetermined word into his postgame conference."Continue reading...
In honor of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, which signals the close of the month-long Ramadan fast and takes places at sundown this evening, we bring you a new vocabulary list: Food and Drink Words with Arabic Roots.Continue reading...
Two Vocabulary Lists honor the life and work of South African novelist and activist and 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nadine Gordimer, who died Sunday at the age of 90.Continue reading...
Award-winning children's writer Walter Dean Myers's described the two "very distinct voices" in his head in his teen years as the vocabulary of "the street" and "the vocabulary of literature." Two vocabulary lists from his novels show how carefully he merged the two in his writing.Continue reading...
This Independence Day, go back to the holiday's roots with this list of Declaration of Independence Vocabulary. Or follow us on twitter, where we'll be tweeting some great words from the list throughout the holiday weekend.Continue reading...
High school grads: Before you start rocking out to "Pomp and Circumstance," make sure you're ready to receive a diploma from a vocabularian perspective.Continue reading...