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The 50th Anniversary of King's "Dream" 26 Aug 2013 | 05:03 am
Fifty years ago, on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of more than 250,000 people. Since th...
Dean Stern on Iconic: "Don't Use It Again" 23 Aug 2013 | 05:03 am
Back in June (in the article "ICON'T STAND IT!"), writer M.E. Tuthill raged eloquently against the abuse and overuse of the words icon and iconic. These vogue words "no longer have any meaning at all,...
Language Notes 21 Aug 2013 | 05:04 am
If you prefer to learn about language in small doses (bulleted lists of quips and quotes), take a look at our growing collection of notes on the English language. Notes on Nouns One way to multiply ...
Why Freshman Composition Isn't a Waste of Time 19 Aug 2013 | 05:04 am
"Grammar is not a time of waste," said Bart Simpson. Neither, for that matter, is the one class that almost every first-year student in every American college and university will be required to take t...
How Words Literally Change Their Meanings 16 Aug 2013 | 05:07 am
It's happened. Literally the most misused word in the language has officially changed definition. Now as well as meaning "in a literal manner or sense; exactly: 'the driver took it literally when aske...
The Enchantment and Beauty of Grammar 14 Aug 2013 | 05:03 am
Today's lesson on grammar is provided by Paloma Josse, the precocious 12-year-old co-narrator of Muriel Barbery's novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog. At school one morning, during a lesson on epithet...
Quiz on Commonly Confused Words (Summer 2013) 12 Aug 2013 | 05:03 am
You know the drill: ten questions, two minutes, correct answers at the end of the post. (For explanations, examples, and exercises, follow the links to our Glossary of Usage: Index of Commonly Confuse...
Brushing Up on Basic English Grammar 9 Aug 2013 | 05:02 am
Let's say you've been out of school for a few months (or a few decades) and you'd like to review the basic principles of English grammar. Here are four recently revised articles that will help you get...
De Vries on Revising: Frying Out the Fat 7 Aug 2013 | 05:04 am
Today's reflections on revising come from one of the funniest (and most underrated) American novelists of the past century, Peter De Vries. Revision is mostly compression--frying the fat out of it, I...
A Dozen New Exercises and Quizzes (Summer 2013) 5 Aug 2013 | 05:04 am
Here are 12 grammar, usage, and vocabulary exercises recently added to our collection of Exercises and Quizzes. To view any of these worksheets without ads, click on the printer icon near the top of e...
