Vocabulary

What Words Will You Never Use Again?

Posted 04.26.2012

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After college, there are some words you will never have to use again. In some cases, it's refreshing to not have to say you are going to the libra...

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How Girls Are Changing The Way We All Talk

The New York Times | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Language, Women Speech Patterns, Young-Women-Vocal-Fry, Women Vocabulary, Girls Speech Patterns, Vocabulary, Women News

The linguistic quirks of teenage girls remain a topic of fascination among researchers, who note that young girls often start vocal trends. And as a n...

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Cancer, a New View: Talk About Change

Leigh Fortson | Posted 03.12.2012

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Leigh Fortson

If you subscribe -- even remotely -- to the power of the marriage between our minds and bodies, then you, too, might cringe at the notion that a condition is incurable.

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Oral Language Experiences for Young Learners

Dr. Rebecca Palacios | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Early Language Learning, Language Learning, Vocabulary, Cultura, Latino Voices News
Dr. Rebecca Palacios

When your child reads, he or she looks at the written words on a page and decides what spoken words the written words represent. But that doesn't help him understand what he is reading unless he also knows the meanings of those spoken words.

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PHOTOS: 13 Local Words You'll Need To Travel The U.S.

Mim Harrison | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Language, America, USA, Colloquialisms, US Destinations, Words, Slidepollajax, Local Words U.S., Local Words, Regional Words, Vocabulary, Books News
Mim Harrison

We Americans should all be talking the same by now. Television, chain stores and texting should surely have expunged from our tongues all those quirky regionalisms.

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Achievement Gap Between Rich And Poor Students May Start With Baby Talk, Says Study

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Development, Infants, Early Education, Education, Class Disparity, Infant Education, Vocabulary, Video, Education News

When it comes to building your child's vocabulary, the answer may be in quantity, not quality. NPR reports that University of Kansas graduate studen...

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Official New Dictionary Words

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Around 2,000 new words, phrases, and meanings have been added to the dictionary of American English, including bromance -- defined as "a close but non...

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Jason Linkins

Baltimore Sun's Use Of English Language Confuses Readership

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Columbia Journalism Review tips readers off to the incredibly true story of that time the Baltimore Sun used a word in a headline that completely perplexed its readership.

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8 Food Words Rejected (For Now) By The Oxford English Dictionary

Posted 05.25.2011

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Serious Eats' Erin Zimmer pointed out an article from the Telegraph about millions of "non words" rejected by the Oxford University Press as "unsuitab...

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Moving to, Like, America

Carmen Burcea-Haber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carmen Burcea-Haber

I noticed an exponential use of the preposition "like" that by now largely supplants the use of a comma that I started to fear that, oh my God, I myself might eventually, like, catch this bug.

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Southern Public School Students Are Predominantly Poor And Minorities

Posted 05.25.2011

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Southern public schools are the first in the country to have both a poor and minority student majority, The New York Times reported Thursday. A repo...

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English To Hit 1 Million Words In 2009

ABC News | Ruth Walker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: English Words, English, Language, Vocabulary, Home News

Scarcely has the new year begun before the calendar pages start filling up with lunch dates promised in Christmas cards and notes-to-self about next t...

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