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Nov.24.2010 Of All The Words In All The Dictionaries, You Had To Walk Into This One Two bizarre expressions from the internet age - 'tweep' and 'woot' - were yesterday shortlisted as Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year Woot! It's a great day for tweeps as two bizarre new expressions make Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year shortlist The news is surely enough to make...	Nov.20.2010 The Slow Word Movement Words are personal. Intimate. They draw us in; they push us away. They protect and expose, honor and betray, liberate and imprison... label. Whoever came up with the saying, "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me;" well, they just weren't listening. Words...
Nov.15.2010 Punning My Life Again Puns have been described by a non-admirer as "the lowest form of humor." However, this estimation is not shared by all. One of the status lines on my Facebook account that got the most response was: "Some psychology students are too Jung and easily Freudened." I know, insert...	Nov.14.2010 Read the Content. Understand the Words. I recently wrote an opinion piece that was published by AOL News about people’s misunderstanding of the First Amendment. (See this.) For a couple of days, it sat on AOL’s page without many comments. But then on Sunday, AOL members came out in force. One member said I should be hanged. Another...
Sep.14.2010 Chimps and Humans: Words Apart Using vivid language as a writer means I have to overcome a strong urge to scream from the tree tops and throw branches. Instead, I have to sit down and think. That's the hard part about writing: Doing the screaming in written words, translating emotion exactly and precisely into descriptions...	Sep.08.2010 COUNTERREVOLUTIONARIES TEAM UP WITH ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM antidisestablishmentarianismn.opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England.28 letters The 11 Longest Words In The English Language (PHOTOS) Long words can be fun to say for your own amusement or...
Aug.27.2010 Word Clouds My writing pal, Nancy, just alerted me to a bit from the new Poets & Writer's magazine: Wordle Copy a piece of your writing into Wordle, and it will let you know which words you've (consciously or unconsciously) allowed to predominate. Besides that, it makes great visual art of your writing....	Aug.25.2010 Who I Was and Who I Am I am more preoccupied By who I was than by who I am Bits and pieces of sustenance Given in lost images Did I tell you that I love you father. The before should lead to the after My after is my before Asters in the fall Tulips in the spring Iris’s to confuse Did I tell you that I love you...
Aug.16.2010 LANGUAGE CHANGES BECAUSE OF THE INTERNET How the internet is changing languageBy Zoe Kleinman Technology reporter, BBC News 'To Google' has become a universally understood verb and many countries are developing their own internet slang. But is the web changing language and is everyone up to speed? The web is a hub of neologisms In April...	Aug.15.2010 TOO MANY WORDS, ER, TOO MANY BIG WORDS, ER, TOO MANY . . . Rankin stumped over own debut novelSubscribe Ian Rankin has said his first novel used too many grandiose wordsPublished Date: 15 August 2010 Novelist Ian Rankin has revealed he no longer understands some of the grandiose words he used in his first book.The Scottish writer amassed a fortune through...

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