Lexicon Avenue
CAUTION: Words at Play
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Rail away, Twain
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Today is the birthday of James Fenimore Cooper, the popular American frontier novelist of the early 19th century. His most famous book is Th...
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Plausible lies
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We played Fictionary as a class activity at the Room in the Inn yesterday. In Fictionary, one player finds an uncommon word in the diction...
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Quackle, snap, pop
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Quackle is the name of a Scrabble software program that allows you to play against a computer. The other day is scored 320 points against ...
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Just banning "Trees" would save a million trees
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Kay Ryan was named poet laureate of the United States. "I might take it upon myself," she said, "to prevent all bad poetry f...
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Unbe-lievable
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On this day in 1897, the first copies of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula went on sale in London bookstalls. Stoker coined the noun un-dea...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Out with the old, in with the new
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What this country needs is a Cliché Czar. That eminence would ride herd on the unthinking, lazy and demoralizing use of worn-out expressio...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Nailed
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In giant letters on a sign above a brand-new business: Glorious Nail's . Who is this Nail, and why is he/she so glorious? And what kind ...
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