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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - November 7, 2012
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - November 7, 2012
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The headlines were full of "disruption" last week, as Superstorm Sandy ravaged the East Coast. "Hurricane Sandy Disrupts Millions of Lives" read the headline on a New York Times slide show. Sandy "continues to disrupt New York entertainment industry," CBS News warned a day after the storm passed through. Subway, train, and air travel was disrupted, as was phone and cable service, and there was even concern that power outages would disrupt voting in today's election.
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In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, our Lower Manhattan-based offices were shuttered and without power. Our employees — spread throughout the greater New York area — hunkered down in homes that had varying degrees of power, running water, Internet connectivity, and access to medical care, food, and other essential services. Communication happened by email and text message and the occasional phone call, though often what we encountered was not being able to communicate at all.
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Learning Differences and Vocabulary: Do Deficits Matter?
Vocabulary.com interviews learning specialist Dr. Blythe Grossberg, Psy.D.
Learning specialist Dr. Blythe Grossberg, Psy.D. is a founding partner of Themba Tutors, a joint practice of professionals, and works personally with students who have ADD, language processing disorders, Asperger’s, dyslexia, and math disorders. Here she talks with Vocabulary.com about vocabulary acquisition and learning differences.
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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - October 31, 2012
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - October 31, 2012
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As most histories of Halloween will tell you, Hallowe'en (or Halloween) is a shortened version of All-Hallow(s)-Eve, but how and why did eve turn into e'en? For that matter, what is a hallow? Why did the all get dropped?
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Ain't This Good English?
David Skinner's new book, The Story of Ain't, is about the controversy that surrounded the 1961 publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, which was blasted for not coming down hard enough on nonstandard words like ain't. Skinner looks at how far we've come in our view of slang and dictionaries in a piece for the Wall Street Journal, "Ain't This Good English?" And read more about Webster's Third in Ben Zimmer's Word Routes column last year celebrating the dictionary's 50th birthday.
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