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Articles from October, 2014
Teachers around the country have been taking advantage of the Vocabulary.com Educator Edition to track student progress in their classes. And today the Educator Edition got even better, with a brand-new Teacher Dashboard that puts the most useful student data at your fingertips with a great new design.
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Thanks, Taylor Swift, for the New York City Vocab
We agree! Regional dialect is tons of fun
As our culture becomes more homogenized, regional language distinctions fade away. But many are still out there, and they're still fun. Case in point: Taylor Swift's video on New York City-specific vocab, made for NYCGO's "Welcome 2 New York" campaign.
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Here's the latest in our series of quick tips on usage and style shared by Mignon Fogarty, better known as Grammar Girl. Mignon points out a common confusion that might leave you star-crossed.
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Ripped. Slapped. Poked. Swatted. If you've been watching the World Series, you've probably heard some of these verbs for hitting a baseball. Sports can involve a lot of repetition, so to make it different and exciting, sportscasters often use a wide variety of terms to describe the action. It is this variety that makes sports lingo an interesting object of study.
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Ben Zimmer Wins LSA's Linguistics Journalism Award
The Linguistic Society of America today named Vocabulary.com-Visual Thesaurus Executive Producer Ben Zimmer as the first recipient of the Linguistics Journalism Award. The award honors "the journalist whose work best represents linguistics" during the past 12 months. In addition to his stellar work on Vocabulary.com and the Visual Thesaurus, the LSA singled out Zimmer's language column in the Wall Street Journal, as well as "articles on linguistic topics for the Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Slate's 'Lexicon Valley' blog, and Language Log."
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Prepping for Your School Spelling Bee? Don't Forget Vocab
Use Vocabulary.com to explore the words as you learn to spell
Across the country, middle school students are entering the early stages of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, competing on the classroom, grade, and school levels. Here are three strategies for approaching the vocabulary questions that are now part of the Bee, and a free Vocabulary.com resource to use when executing each one.
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Vocabulary Shout-Out
Ever Wonder Where the Word "Ouija" Came From?
Only the spirits seems to truly know...
Following today's release of the teen horror pic Ouija, we're taking another look at our blurb for the word. Turns out, it's less about the occult and more about "getting to 'yes.'"
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